where, in addition to eating insects, they dig up grain, and they have a habit, common 

 to many cranes, of dancing. A black open-bill stork is just beyond the cranes. Close at 

 hand swim a pair of pigmy geese and a crested grebe with a downy young one riding 

 on its back. Beyond, a painted snipe displays its ocellated wing in flight; nearer are a 

 long- toed plover with one of its downy young, a coot, and a gallinule; beyond, an 

 anhinga swims toward three tree-ducks perched on a lump of mud. 



In the background are herons, egrets, and ducks. More crowned cranes are on a far 

 mud bank, and a fishing eagle circles overhead. Looking closer, one sees lesser fowl; a 

 black rail peers from the papyrus; a malachite kingfisher rests on a lily- pad; weaver- 

 birds are nesting in the papyrus, where a little swamp flycatcher flits. 



CHART ILLUSTRATING EXHIBIT OF BIRDS OF NILE PAPYRUS MARSH 



1 . Whale-headed stork (Balaeniceps rex) 1 2. 



2. Crowned crane {Baleanca regulorum) 13. 



3. Great crested grebe (/"(ii^/cc/ii irrwta/«j) 14. 



4. Viviaxi ^oosc {Nettapus auritus) 15. 



5. Buff-backed heron (B«A«/cui i'Aif) 16. 



6. White-backed duck (TAfl/awora/i- /racono/ui) 17. 



7. Painted snipe {Rostratula berighaUnsis) 18. 



8. l^ong-locd plovtr {Hemiparra crassirostris) 19. 



9. Airican ']acana. {Actophilornis ajricana) 20. 



10. Red-knobbed coot (F«/ica cm<a/a) 21. 



11. Open-hiMcd sXotV [Anastomus lamelligerus) 22. 



White-faced tree duck {Dendrocygna viduata) 



Fish eagle {Cuncuma vocifer) 



Black crake (Limnocorax flaviroslra) 



King reed-hen (Porphyria madagascariensis) 



African darter (Anhinga ruja) 



Malachite kingfisher (Corythornis cristata) 



.Swamp flycatcher (Alseonax aquaticus) 



Sand plover (Charadrius pecuarius) 



Yellow-mantled whydah (Coliuspasser macrourus) 



Orange bishop (Euplectes Jranciscand) 



Yellow-collared weaver (Ploceus capitalis) 



67' 



