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Ardea cucuUata (Liclit.), Sclil. Mus. P.-B., Ardeae , p. 60. 



Nycticorax cucullatus , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 225. 



Nycticorax leuconotus , Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 450. 



Hab. Tropical and Soutliern Africa. 



Collected at Buluma, near the Fisherman Lake. 



We found , though very rarely , this bird in the same 

 places as A. gularis and A. alba, sitting on Mangrove- 

 bushes. 



Iris orange-red ; bill black , feet lemon-yellow , claws horny. 



Ciconia episcopus. 



Ciconia episcopus, Bodd. Tabl. 906; — F. & Hartl. 

 Vög. 0. Afr. p. 722; — Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 452. 



Ciconia leiccocephala (Gm.), Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 227 ; — 

 Schl. Mus. P.-B., Ciconiae, p. 9. 



Hab. Tropical and Southern Africa, with the exception 

 of the Cape Colony; Southern Asia and Indo-Malay Ar- 

 chipelago. 



Collected near Buluma. 



The White-headed Stork seems to occur but sparingly 

 throughout the country, as we saw it only now and then 

 along the Fisherman Lake, wading in the shallow water 

 along the shore , in pursuit of frogs , small fishes and crabs. 



Iris cherry-red ; bill red, black at base ; feet grayish brown. 



Ibis hagedash. 



Tantalus hagedash, Lath. Ind. Orn. II. sp. 708, p. 23 

 (1790). 



Ibis Hagedash (Vieill.), Schl. Mus. P.-B., Ibis, p. 10; — 

 F. & Hartl. Vög. 0. Afr. p. 735. 



Geronticus hagedash , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 231 ; — 

 Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 460. 



Hab. Tropical and Southern Africa. 



Collected near Buluma , which is the only place we met 

 with it. The only specimen obtained was shot out of six 



Notes from the Leyden ]Museu.za, Vol, VII. 



