— 40 — 



Irides brownish-yellow; bill light yellowish brown (blackish 

 above);,, legs brownish-yellow. 



Gruidae. 



Balearica reguloriim gibbericeps Rchw. — Rchw. I. p. 266. 



2 (5(5 ad. 12. and 18. 7., 1 Q ad. 5. 7. Mount Elgon. 



The Crowned Cranes were fairly common in the marshes 

 below the eastern slopes of Mount Elgon and here, as at every 

 other place where 1 came across them later on, they were not 

 shy, but would permit one to get close to them before they rose 

 with heavy, slow strokes of the wing. For the most part they 

 were seen in pairs, but once (in the middle of September) I 

 saw outside Nairobi a large flock, about 50 in number walk- 

 ing in the cultivated land, searching for insects. K o t h e (Z. 

 Erg. p. 329) relates that at Misama on Aug. 24th he saw several 

 hundreds together. 



They were common everywhere at Kendu (on the Kavi- 

 rondo Gulf) and also at Lake Naiwasha. 



The bill right from the tip to the base is provided with a 

 protuberance or list, widening a little towards the base, the 

 edges of which project more or less outwards. 



Wing cillmen tarsus tail 



600 mm. 64 mm. 210 mm. 275 mm. cf 



Irides white; legs and culmen black. 



Jacanidae. 



Adophilus africanus (Gm.). — Rchw. I. p. 267. 



1 (5 ad. 21. 4. Lake Naiwasha. — 1 Q ad. 18. 8. Kisumu. — 1 e juv. 21. 4. 

 Lake Naiwasha. — 1 Q juv. 18. 8. Kisumu. 



The two specimens that were shot in the month of April 

 are from Lake Naiwasha, the other two from Kisumu, in the 

 innermost corner of the Gulf of Kavirondo. In both these loca- 

 lities the bird was very common, frequenting the reed -belt, 

 where the leaves of the I^ymphaea covered the surface of the 

 water. 



The young birds are not reddish brown on the black like 

 the adults, but have distinct greenish brown markings. Both 

 have the foreneck golden -yellow but not so deep as the adult. 

 The one from Naiwasha has the under parts of the body white, 

 but the flanks are reddish-brown, the one from Kisumu is more 

 reddish -brown with numerous white feathers here and there. 



