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order claims mention, inasmuch as, being a South-African, 

 it was here 1000 miles outside its recorded range. This 

 was a tiny jacana (Microparra capensis), whose next 

 nearest known habitats are at Entebbe in Uganda and 

 Lake Naivasha in British East Africa, just south of 

 the Equator. 1 Seeing how ill-equipped these little rails 

 appear for lengthened migrations, Lynes suggested that 



ABDIM'S STORK (Ciconia abdimii). 



their presence here, 1000 miles north, may be due to 

 their taking "assisted passages" on the floating islets 

 of Sudd that are incessantly drifting down all these 

 Nilotic waterways, each islet usually tenanted by the 

 common jacanas, by squacco herons, and other birds 

 in quest of water-beetles. Note, that in the Sudd there 



1 Later we fell in with two more of these vagrants, the pair being 

 hustled out of their wonted* seclusion by their pugnacious neighbours, the 

 black water-rails aforesaid. When shot, flying over the river, one of these 

 instantly dived and was seen no more. Another record of these miniature 

 jacanas in the Sudan occurs in Ibis, 1902, p. 458. 



