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SAVAGE SUDAN 
lightning- ” patterns that would fix a colour-protectionist 
in recurrent hysterics ; hardly less striking the gaunt 
marabou ; and out on every shallow stalks the Goliath 
heron, well-named and conspicuous afar. Among colossal 
forms, figures the great pink pelican, with wild-geese 
double the size of anything we are wont to see at home ; 
besides ubiquitous mobs of tropical cranes and storks 
Saddle-billed Jabiru. 
(Jebel Ahmed Agha, January 29th, 1913.) 
taller than school-boys. Then there are the spook-like 
openbills, egrets, and ibises in varied colours—to name 
but a few. 
At midday we halted by a lateral lagoon, everywhere 
spangled with groups and conclaves of all these creatures, 
many asleep, others probing or preening, and all reflected 
in the mirror-like surface. Chestnut-red jacanas coursed 
over floating lily-leaves, and the foreground was adorned 
with graceful stilts, greenshanks in two sizes, godwits 
