312 HERONS, STORKS, AND TBISES. 
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 (4 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 
