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HERONS, STORKS, AND IBISES. 



In India the adjutant is a summer visitant, arriving towards the close of the 

 hot weather about the end of April or May, and remaining through the rainy- 

 season till October. It is, however, a somewhat local bird, being most common 

 in Bengal and the north-eastern districts, and well known to all residents in 



AFRICAN ADJUTANT {\ nat. size). 



Calcutta, where these birds are in the habit of perching in numbers on the 

 parapets of Government House during the rains. They breed in Burma and 

 the Malayan countries, a favourite nesting-place being some lofty scarped 

 limestone rocks called the Nidong Hills on the Attaran River, to the south-east 

 of Moulmein. On account of their value as scavengers, these birds are protected 



