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order claims mention, inasmuch as, being a South-African, 
it was here 1000 miles outside its recorded range. This 
was a tiny jacana {Microparra capensis ), whose next 
nearest known habitats are at Entebbe in Uganda and 
Lake Naivasha in British East Africa, just south of 
the Equator. 1 Seeing how ill-equipped these little rails 
appear for lengthened migrations, Lynes suggested that 
Abdim’s STORK (Ciconia abdimii). 
their presence here, 1000 miles north, may be due to 
their taking “assisted passages” on the floating islets 
of Sudd that are incessantly drifting down all these 
Nilotic waterways, each islet usually tenanted by the 
common jacanas, by squacco herons, and other birds 
in quest of water-beetles. Note, that in the Sudd there 
1 Later we fell in with two more of these vagrants, the pair being 
hustled out of their wonted seclusion by their pugnacious neighbours, the 
black water-rails aforesaid. When shot, flying over the river, one of these 
instantly dived and was seen no more. Another record of these miniature 
jacanas in the Sudan occurs in Ibis , 1902, p. 458. 
