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A Family Feud Fiscal Shrikes . . . . . . . . 250 



Scissor-Bill ......... 251 



Openbill .......... 251 



" A Certain Liveliness" (Serpent-Eagle) ..... 254 



" Expectant " (Pied Crows) ....... 256 



African Cormorants and Jacana . . . . . . .258 



Goliath Heron on Wing ........ 262 



In the Sudd Night Herons ....... 266 



Microparra capensis . . . - . . . . 266 



Abdim's Stork ......... 267 



Whale-headed Stork ... . . . . . .268 



Night-Herons (immature) Midday ...... 269 



Elephants in the Sudd. A. " Strode jauntily past " . . . 270 



Do. do. B. "Somnolent" ..... 271 



Do. do. C. " Explosive "..... 272 



" Disturbed but not Dismayed " (Elephants) ..... 276 



Bull Elephant 200 Ib. Ivory ....... 277 



Elephant Cow and Calf, near Sheikh Tombe ..... 278 



Striped Hyena, shot near Gondokoro ...... 279 



Elephant Cow tearing up Cane-Grass . . . . .281 



Grey Hornbill ......... 284 



Dhurra-Finch in Summer Dress ....... 284 



Head of Grey Hornbill ........ 285 



Black-shouldered Kite ........ 287 



Instinct at Fault " Kite Over " (Bush-Cuckoo) . . . .288 



Asleep in Cane-Jungle ( do. ) 289 



In act of " Bubbling " (do. ) .... 289 



Crested Hawk-Eagle ........ 292 



"Balancing" (Marabou) ....... 294 



Abdim's Stork ......... 297 



" Taking the Morning Sun " Wood-Ibis ..... 298 



Silverbills Sunning ........ 300 



Colics on the Erythrina ........ 301 



Silverbills Courting . . . . . . . . 302 



Long-tailed Doves on our Erythrina ...... 303 



Sunbirds On Blossom of Erythrina ...... 305 



The Barbaric Beauty (Sunbird) ....... 307 



Doves in the Dusk . . . . . . . .315 



White-tailed Lapwing . . . . . . . 3^5 



Paradise Whydah-Finch ........ 317 



Grivets Reconnoitring . . . . . . . 319 



Grivets Drinking ........ 319 



Bush-Cuckoo ......... 320 



Grivets Drinking Dinder River . - . . . . . . 322 



Bridled Bee-eater ......... 323 



