BIRDS 
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The Hammer-head {Scopus umbrella). 
Sheik Husein. 
Length 25 inches. Head very large ; beak longer than head ; neck short 
and thick ; broad and bushy crest on head ; colour umber-brown ; brighter 
on the under surface ; beak black ; legs and feet brown or black ; iris 
dark brown. 
White Stork {Ciconia alba). 
Colour white ; quills black. Length 42 inches. 
African Marabou Stork {Leptoptilus criminifems). 
Bun Feroli ; common in the Boorgha country ; AVell AVall. 
Length from tip of beak to tip of toe, 4 feet 74 inches; length of beak, 
12 inches. One enormous male killed by me at Well Wall measured 
6 feet 14 inches from tip of beak to tip of toe, and exactly 9 feet from tip 
to tip of wings. Large naked head, neck, and- pouch, latter brilliantly 
coloured red and blue, which is lost when skinned ; wings and back dark 
blue-black ; breast black and white ; fluffy white feathers between the 
legs, the ‘ marabou ’ feathers of commerce. 
The Sacred Ibis {Ibis cethiopica). 
Bainhou. 
Bill very long; short twelve-feathered tail. Colour pure white ; tips of 
wings dark green. Length 29 inches. Iris brown ; naked head and neck 
black ; plumes on the back and tips of the quills greenish-black ; rest of 
plumage white tinged with buff. 
Hadadah Ibis ( EagedasMa hagedash). 
Bainhou. 
So called from its cry, ‘ Ha — ha — hadadah.’ Above glossy brown-green ; 
under parts, head, and neck gray-brown ; bill red and black ; legs red- 
brown ; iris white. Length 2 feet 5 inches. 
ANSEEES (The Ducks). 
Egyptian Goose {Chenalopex cegyptiaca). 
Found breeding on all suitable lakes and rivers in Somaliland; on the 
Jiggiga Plain, Webbi Shebeyli, Sinnadogho in the Marehan country, 
AUahballah. 
Length 28 inches. Back brown ; rump black ; back of neck reddish-brown; 
breast gray ; under tail-coverts buff ; wing-coverts white barred with a 
black line ; secondaries metallic green ; iris orange. 
Tree Duck {?). 
Abdin Libah. 
Size of a widgeon ; wings and breast colour of . female teal ; legs black ; iris 
brown ; top of head brown under buff. 
Common Teal {Querguedula crecca). 
Mud flats close to the harbour at Berbera. 
Head brown and metallic blue ; body gray barred with brown ; breast gray- 
buff spotted with brown. 
