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rose-pink; squadrons ol' pelicans, cohorts of crowned cranes (wadini'-, dancim/-, 

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

 Egyptian gee^e, blue-grey herons, fawn-coloured herons, white egrets, black 

 cormorants, black-green and white saddle-billed .^torks 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 biixls will meet (no doubt attracted by shoals of fish) 

 to feed, fight, court, jilay, and display. In two hours ])erha})s all may have 



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vanished, either to proceed to another feeding place or to settle down for 

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

 would be heififhtened by the Ixild screams of the yreat fish-eagles. These 

 vociferating birds when adult have boldly coloured plumage of white, 

 chocolate-brown, and black. 



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

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

 the rainv season the waters of Lake Dweru flow through a channel like a 

 broad winding river into Lake Albert Edward. During the dry season 

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

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

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