44 CICONIID^: EPHIPPIOEHYNCHUS 



primary coverts white, washed with ashy, especially along the inner 

 webs and at the tips. 



Iris brown in the male, bright yellow in the female ; bill from 

 the base to the nostril and for the distal third, bright crimson, 

 the median portion black ; frontal shield (i.e., saddle) above the 

 nostrils, bright yellow ; skin round the eye and under the bill 

 as also the two little dependent fleshly lappets, bright crimson ; legs 

 black, the tarsal joint (knee) and toes brick dust red ; a bare spot 

 on the breast bright crimson. 



FIG. 13. Head of EpliippiorliyncTius sencgalensis. x i 



Length 57-0; wing 26-5 ; tail 10-75 ; culmen!3-5; tarsus 13-0; 

 middle toe and claw 4-25. The young bird is browner than the 

 adult, and the white of the mantle and chest is washed with brown. 



Distribution. The Saddle-bill is found all over tropical Africa, 

 from the Gambia on the west and the Upper Nile Valley and 

 Abyssinia in the east southwards. 



This Stork is everywhere in South Africa a somewhat rare bird, 

 though perhaps more often met with towards the Zambesi. The 

 following are recorded localities : Cape Colony Kleinmont River in 

 Bathurst district (only once seen, Layard) ; Natal (very rare, Ayres, 

 and Woodward) ; Transvaal Rustenburg, April (once obtained, 

 Ayres) ; Rhodesia Matabeleland (Exton in S. A. Mus.), Nata 

 River in West Matabeleland, June (Holub), near Salisbury 

 (Marshall), lower Nuanetsi River (Millais) ; German South-west 

 Africa Ondonga and New Barmen (Andersson) ; Portuguese East 

 Africa Lower Zambesi (Kirk and Alexander), Inhambane (Millar), 

 near Delagoa Bay (Layard). 



Habits. Little has been recorded about the habits of the 



