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Of birds the following will interest him : ostriches, 

 bustards, eagles, hawks, and vultures ; shrikes sit on the 

 telegraph wires. Among others he will recognise the 

 glossy starling, drongo, weaver birds, chats, the crowned 

 crane, hornbill, touraco, coly, swallow, bee-eater, stork, 

 oxpecker, and the secretary bird. 



The Uganda Railway is unique of its kind, for it is 

 probably the only railroad in the world where monkeys 

 swing on the telegraph wires ; giraffes break the wire 

 with their long necks in crossing the track, and the 

 rhinoceros tilts at telegraph poles in true quixotic 

 style. As a rule, the laugh is with the animal. On 

 rare occasions a lion promenades the platform and 

 interferes with business. 



A T-iron (eight feet long, eight 

 inches wide, and a quarter 

 inch thick), used as a pedestal 

 for a telegraph post. It was 

 twisted by an elephant. 



