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the same birds when feeding on the plain round the town 

 were very difficult to approach. 



The soft parts of a breeding male which I shot were 

 coloured as follows : — Bill dirty greenish olive, with the tips 

 of the mandibles reddish. Throat and space between the 

 rami of the mandible scarlet. A patch over, and joined to 

 one in front of, the eye also scarlet. Skin of the forehead 

 fleshy pink. The rest of the bare skin on the face bright 

 French blue. Legs dirty greenish grey, with the knees and 

 toes reddish. 



On leaving Gedaref a few days later I found almost all 

 the villages between that place and the Blue Nile similarly 

 occupied by colonies of these Storks, which were then sitting 

 on their eggs. They were also breeding along the Blue Nile 

 between Wad Medani and Khartoum. In the latter town 

 I have known the bird breed once or twice, but in single 

 pairs only, nesting on date-palms. 



247. Dissura episcopus (Bodd.). 



The White-necked Stork is rather scarce. I have seen 

 it at various points on both Niles. 



248. Mycteria senegalensis (Shaw). 



This magnificent Jabiru occurs on the Upper Blue Nile, 

 and on the White Nile, Bahr-el-Jebel, Sobat, &c. I have 

 not seen it further north than Jebel Ain. It is generally 

 found in pairs or in small parties of four or five, searching 

 for frogs and small fishes along marshy banks andkhors. It 

 is by no means abundant, but from its great size and 

 brilliant colouring is sure to attract attention whenever 

 met with. 



I saw none in the marshes of the Bahr-el-Ghazal in March 

 1902. In fact, it seems to cease just where Balceniceps rex 

 begins, as if these two giant birds avoided each other by 

 mutual arrangement. But Captain Flow T er appears to have 

 found it there. As it nests on trees, it probably leaves 

 these treeless swamps at certain seasons. 



Mr. G. B. Middletun told me that he once saw a nest 

 of this Stork about forty miles north of Fashoda, on the cast 



