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oi about 8,000 feet we observed a large flock of storks, about 

 30 to 40 in number, which had alighted in some acacias to roost. 



As a rule the storks have already migrated from Africa and 

 arrived in Europe by this time and it is therefore noteworthy 

 that as late as the 9 th of May they had not left East-Africa. 

 On the 16 th April I saw a few in the neighbourhood of Nairobi 

 and, at the end of the same month, at Naiwasha. 



K 1 h e mentions (Zool. Erg. d. Exp, d. Herrn Hauptm. 

 Fromm 1908/09 nach D. 0. Afr. p. 314) that in the middle of 

 March at Msamvia (between Tanganjika and Rukwa Lakes) he 

 found all the trees thickly occupied by storks which had con- 

 gregated to migrate back to their homes, and Kothe's state- 

 ment that the plumage of the specimens shot was very abraded 

 was confirmed by observations of my own. 



Scopidae. 



Scopus umhrefta bannermani C. Grant. — Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 

 XXXV, 1914, p. 27. 



Anam . . . ki-kavirondo. — Nguni . . . ki-kamba. 



1 (5 ad. 13. 4. Nairobi. — 1 (5 ad. 17. 4. Kiambu. — 1 (5 ad. 4. 6. Mount 



Elgon. — 1 (5 ad. 22. 8. Kendu. — 1 g ad. 25. 7. Mount Elgon. 



The Greater Hammer-head is rather common, and I saw 

 it at all the large and small waterways I passed. At Kendu it 

 happened one day that a Hammer-head alighted in a brook only 



2 yards from me and went on picking in the mud without being 

 disturbed in the least by my presence. Now and again it stop- 

 ped suddenly, turned its head to look at me, and then went on 

 quite undisturbed 



Grant points out (op. cit.) that the true S. u. umhretta 

 from Senegal is a small bird, with a wing measurement of 

 248—256 mm., but that specimens from other parts of Africa 

 are larger and have a wing -measurement amounting to 300— 

 330 mm. The latter he herefore styles S. u. bannermani. 



Reichenow states (Journ. f. Orn. 1921, p. 265) that 

 11 specimens from Togo have a wing-measurement of 295 — 315 

 ram: and he considers that the type-form should be limited to 

 the Gold Coast. 



Irides dark-brown ; bill and legs black. 



