522 Mr. G. H. Gurney on 



170. Pelecanus onocrotalus. White Pelican. 

 Felecanus onocrotalus Gmel. 



Iris deep hazel-red ; base of upper and lower mandible 

 deep slate-coloured; sides of upper maudible light yellow 

 with streaks of red^ edge bright red, tip coral-red ; pouch 

 gamboge-yellow. 



There were two or three large flocks of this Pelican on 

 Lake Naivasha. They were extremely wary and shy, but, 

 by hiding up in the thick papyrus-reeds near a sandbank 

 on which they sat, I was able to bag one with a rifle. Every 

 evening they would soar in a long straggling line to an 

 immense height in the air. The pouch and stomach of the 

 one which 1 shot were empty. 



There was another smaller species of Pelican on the lake 

 and some Flamingos ; but I was not able to shoot specimens 

 of either of them, and could not determine to what species 

 they belonged. 



171. Leptoptilus crumeniferus. African Marabout. 

 Leptoptilus crumeniferus Lath. 



Bill dirty green; legs black. 



It was always a source of interest to me to watch the 

 Marabouts assembling when I had shot a beast. The 

 first tiny black specks which appeared in the sky would 

 generally turn out to be these great Storks ; the Vultures 

 came later. And then, again, in the evening we watched them 

 standing like sentinels on the tops of the trees, gazing at the 

 novv whitened skeleton beneath them. The settlers shoot 

 numbers of them for the sake of their feathers. 



172. Scopus umbretta. Hammerhead Stork. 

 Scopus umbretta (Gmel.). 



Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 



A nest of this species, which we found in a small mimosa- 

 tree at Kallima Theki, was an immense structure of sticks, 

 measuring very nearly six feet across. Several of the 

 Hammerheads that I shot contained in their stomachs small 

 spotted frogs. 



173. Ardea purpurea. Purple Heron. 

 Ardea purpurea Linn. 



