THE MARABOU STORK. 



CicoMA Marabou. Vig. 



There are three gigantic species of Stork, natives of 

 Africa and Eastern Asia, which might with propriety 

 be regarded as the types of a separate genus, easily 

 distinguished from the rest by the absence of plumage 

 on their head and neck, the presence at the lower 

 part of the latter organ of a fleshy enlargement which 

 frequently becomes deeply pendulous in front, and 

 the much greater proportional magnitude of their bill. 

 These birds have become known to naturalists only in 

 the course of the last half centurv. Dr. Latham, in 



BIRDS. 



