Some Birds at the Zoo 149 
The outside world would never conceive the 
amount of trouble taken by the Zoological 
Society to find out the proper food for their 
vast and varied collection. 
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To watch these two birds build and pull to 
pieces a nest they were forming 
Common aie ae : ; 
White Stork, “(zing about ten days was most 
entertaining, and the pride of 
the male bird as he pranced about the 
enclosure, sometimes taking up a position for 
a share of public notice at the side of the 
hen, has entertamed many a visitor to the 
Zoo this summer. Soon after the nest (which 
was formed from all kinds of odd material) 
was well advanced, the 
birds were removed to 
another enclosure, but 
as I see no record of any 
common storks ever 
having been born or 
bred im the menagerie, 
their change of apart- 
ments caused no loss to 
the Society's collection. 
At Kew this year a pair 
of storks have built a 
nest and reared some 
young ones, and with 
more space and freedom 
no doubt those at the 
Zoo would do the same. 
WHITE STORK. 
ABU SEIN, as the Adju- 
The tant Stork 
Marabou (Leptoptilus 
Stork Crumeniferus) 
is called by the natives 
on account of the 
pendulous pouch or 
wind bag which hangs 
from the root of the 
enormous bill of this 
grotesque among birds, 
made quite a little “side 
: show” with his mate 
mMarapou and drew a big audience 
SHORINS, during the one or two 
summer days we were permitted to have this 
year. Following the common storks as occu- 
piers of their lately quitted enclosure, the 
comical marabous began their version of nest 
building by posing themselves in a series of the 
most amusing tableau vivants, remaining as 
immovable as the leopard’s spots for several 
minutes, causing one little girl to ask: “ Are 
those birds really alive ?” 
IS 
THs very beautiful game bird resembles the 
vulture in the appearance and 
Gee: i. shape of the head, but in habits 
would be classed with the 
pheasant tribe, and is a native of Hastern 
ee and possibly Western Africa. The beautiful. 
VULTURINE GUINEA FOWL. cobalt blue neck, and the esthetic colouring 
