MYCTERIA SENEGALENSIS. 731 
Senor Anchietahasalso procured it at Capongombe and Quillengues, 
and at Humbe on the River Cunene; it is called at the two last- 
mentioned places, “ Humbi-hwmbi.”” 
Above, greenish-purple; neck brown, with purplish-gloss ; all the 
under parts white; chin, bare part of forehead, space round the eye, 
and tip of bill, orange-red ; the rest of the bill greenish ; bare space 
round the eye, blue. Length, 2’ 9”; wing, 16”. 
Fig. Cretzschm. in Riippell’s Atlas, tab. 9. 
708. Ciconta nPiscorus (Bodd.). White-headed Stork. 
Ciconia leucocephala, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 315. 
This bird appears rather frequently in Natal; but we have not 
met with it in this colony, nor in any collection made to the west- 
ward or in the Interior. It could not have passed us unnoticed, as 
we are well acquainted with it from seeing it in Ceylon. Mr. J. 
Verreaux informed us that he procured it in Algoa Bay. 
Mr. Ayres states that in Natal it “ frequents the bays and swamps 
along the coast (occasionally coming inland). As the tide recedes, 
they wade into the water after crabs and small shell-fish, of which 
(especially the first) their food principally consists. They are 
gregarious, and not so shy and cunning as most of the Waders; the 
flesh is coarse, and not good eating. The stomach of the specimen 
sent contained a large quantity of the shells of small crabs, a few 
small shell-fish, and a very few fish-bones.” Senor Anchieta has 
met with it at Quillengues and at Huilla, at all of which places it is 
called Hombo. 
Violet-black, shining-green ; plumes of lower neck, blackish-green, 
long, wide, truncated, violet-purple at the tip ; forehead, chin, and 
neck, white; belly and rump, white; top and back of head, black ; 
tail white ; the webs of the four outside feathers, black, shining 
coppery. Length, 24’; wing, 183”. 
Fig. Gray and Mitch. Gen. B. iii, pl. 78. 
709. MycreriA SENEGALENSIS, Shaw. African Jabiru. 
We saw a single example of this fine Stork on the Kleinmont 
River, and though it never allowed either Dr. Atherston or myself 
to approach within gun-shot of it, we scanned it for some time 
through our binoculars. Mr. Ayres writes: “The Jabiru is a very 
scarce bird in Natal; a pair are occasionally seen at low water on 
the mud-banks in the centre of the bay, and when here they also 
