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rose-pink ; squadrons of pelicans, cohorts of crowned cranes (wading, dancing, 

 and feeding on the shore-line), flocks of russet-white and metallic-green 

 Egyptian geese, blue-grey lierons, fciwn-coloured hei-ons, white egrets, black 

 cormorants, black-green and white saddle-billed storks with crimson beaks, 

 purple and white ibises, and huge marabou storks, with the mottled beaks 

 and faces of drunkards, the scraggy necks and white plumes of dowagers, 

 and huge wings of satin-like grey-green. At certain hours of the day this 

 immense concourse of birds will meet (no doubt attracted bv shoals of fish) 

 to feed, fight, court, play, and display. In two hours perhaps all may have 



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vanished, either to j)roceed to another feeding place or to settle down for 

 the night at their roosting or sleeping resort. Tlieir cheerful clamour 

 would be heightened by the bold screams of the great fish-eagles. These 

 vociferating birds when adult have boldly coloured plumage of white, 

 chocolate-brown, and V)lack. 



To the north-east. Lake AUiert Edward sends off or receives a curious 

 extension, which, on the whole, had better he called Lake Dweru. During 

 the rainy season the waters of Lake Dweru flow tlu-ough a channel like a 

 broad winding river into ].ake Albert Edward. During the dry season 

 of Euwenzori, it is possible that the waters of Lake Albert Edward, receiving 

 the rain sup[)lies from south of tlie equator, flow nortliwards into Lake 

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