8 SCAVENaEES OF THE VELD 



Some of the old Boers looked upon this species as a bird 

 of ill-omen. It derived its specific name of ossifragus from 

 a popular behef amongst the ancients to the effect that 

 the bird carried into the air bones too large to swallow, 

 and let them fall on a rock for the purpose of breaking them. 



Pig. 3.— The Marabou Stork. (Photo. Dr. Gough.) 



THE MARABOU STORK 



One other bird remains to be mentioned, the solemn and 

 grotesque-looking Marabou {Leptoptilus crumeniferus), which, 



