. The birds of South Africa. Birds. 44 CICONiroa} BPHIPPIOEHTNCHUS primary coverts white, washed with ashy, especially along the inner webs and at the tips. Iris brown in the male, bright yellow in the female ; bill from the base to the nostril and for the distal third, bright crimson, the median portion" black; frontal shield {, saddle) above the nostrils, bright yellow ; skin round the eye and under the bill as also the two little dependent fleshly lappets, bright crimson; legs black, the tarsal joint (knee) and toes brick dust red; a bare spot on the breast bright Fig. 13
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. 44 CICONiroa} BPHIPPIOEHTNCHUS primary coverts white, washed with ashy, especially along the inner webs and at the tips. Iris brown in the male, bright yellow in the female ; bill from the base to the nostril and for the distal third, bright crimson, the median portion" black; frontal shield {, saddle) above the nostrils, bright yellow ; skin round the eye and under the bill as also the two little dependent fleshly lappets, bright crimson; legs black, the tarsal joint (knee) and toes brick dust red; a bare spot on the breast bright Fig. 13.—Head of Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis. x ^ Length 57-0 ; wing 26-5 ; tail 10-75 ; culmen 13-5; tarsus 13-0; middle toe and claw 4-26. The young bird is browner than the adult, and the white of the mantle and chest is washed with brown. Distribution.—The Saddle-bill is found all over tropical Africa from the Gambia on the west and the Qpper Nile Valley and Abyssinia in the east southwards. This Stork is everywhere in South Africa a somewhat rare bird, though perhaps more often met with towards the Zambesi. The following are recorded localities : Cape Colony—Kleinmont Eiver in Bathurst district (only once seen, Layard) ; Natal—(very rare, Ayres, and Woodward) ; Transvaal—Rustenburg, April (once obtained, Ayres) ; Ehodesia—Matabeleland (Bxton in S. A. Mus.), Nata Eiver in West Matabeleland, June (Holub), near SaUsbury (Marshall), lower Nuanetsi Eiver (Millais); German South-west Africa—Ondonga and New Barmen (Andersson); Portuguese East Africa^Lower Zambesi (Kirk and Alexander), Inhambane (Millar), near Delagoa Bay (Layard). Habits.—Little has been recorded about the habits of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stark, Arthur Cowell, d. 1899; Sclater, William Lutley, 1863-1944
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