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EASTERN ETHIOPIA 
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Of birds the following will interest him : ostriches, 
bustards, eagles, hawks, and vultures ; shrikes sit on the 
telegraph wires. Among others he will recognise the 
glossy starling, drongo, weaver birds, chats, the crowned 
crane, hornbill, touraco, coly, swallow, bee-eater, stork, 
oxpecker, and the secretary bird. 
The Uganda Railway is unique of its kind, for it is 
probably the only railroad in the worlcTwhere monkeys 
swing on the telegraph wires ; giraffes break the wire 
with their long necks in crossing the track, and the 
rhinoceros tilts at telegraph poles in true quixotic 
style. As a rule, the laugh is with the animal. On 
rare occasions a lion promenades the platform and 
interferes with business. 
A 
T-iron (eight feet long, eight 
inches wide, and a quarter 
inch thick), used as a pedestal 
for a telegraph post. It was 
twisted by an elephant. 
