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SAVAGE SUDAN 
orange-yellow and the naked face bright red. This 
bird abounds on every backwater. Often he stands 
statuesque, awaiting heron-wise some vision of a moving 
victim; others stalk slowly about, probing deeply in the 
shallows. The gullets of those shot are usually crammed 
with slow-swimming fish — perch, bullheads, and the 
“ Stands Statuesque.”—Wood-Ibis. 
strange half-reptilian creatures (many, it is probable, 
unknown to science) with which these marshes swarm. 
The crop of one contained eels and frogs. 
White Nile is simply stiff with fish. Throw a crust 
from your cabin-port; instantly you see it in torment, 
dipping and diving as a score'of small fry tug and tear. 
With rudest tackle, or in two or three casts with a 
seine-net, our crew kept us daily supplied with fish. 
Some of these weighed six, eight, and ten pounds and 
upwards (elsewhere are related combats with much 
heavier opponents) but could scarce be commended as 
