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Transvaal) I watched a pair carrying food to their young 
on June 21. Sketched at p. 220. 
Marabou Stork— Lejotojotilus crumeniferus. At first sight, it 
surprises one to observe a bird obviously of the Stork 
persuasion performing the functions of a Vulture—indeed 
sharing with those scavengers a repulsive meal. But 
biologists had long ago demonstrated the anatomical 
affinity that exists between orders apparently so widely 
separated as the Vultures and the Storks. In their 
easy soaring flight, floating for hours in high heaven, 
without apparent exertion, the two possess a common 
aptitude. The Marabou is really master of the feast, 
and, stalking into the crowd, sets the huge Vultures 
flapping aside in dire dismay from that terrible bayonet¬ 
like beak. Also gorges on locusts—see p. 99. The 
Marabou abounds in East Africa. 
Saddle-billed Stork, or African Jabiru— Ephmpiorhynchus sene - 
galenis. Even that tremendous scientific name hardly 
does justice to this giant among feathered fowl; which, 
however, despite those murderous mandibles, appears to 
confine its attentions to frogs and the like “small deer” 
on the marshy margins of the lakes. We observed it on 
Nakuru and Elmenteita, and it is sketched at p. 39. 
White Stork— Ciconia alba. A winter migrant, at times cover¬ 
ing the plain in a black and white crowd, doing invaluable 
service in locust-killing. 
White-bellied Stork— Abdimia abdimii. With the above 
were a few of this smaller and darker species that I took 
at the time to be Black Storks (G. nigra), which latter we 
did not observe. 
Ibises .. 
Glossy Ibis— Ibis falcinellus 
Sacred Ibis— I. cethiopica. 
Both species common on all lakes. 
Hagedash Ibis— Hagedashia hagedash. Common. 
Wood-Ibis— Pseudotantalus ibis. Scattered over the country 
by wooded rivers. A big bird, stork-like in colour, but 
with a heavy, curved orange beak. The bare skin of the 
