. Birds the world over, as shown in habitat groups in Chicago Natural History Museum. Birds. where, in addition to eating insects, they dig up grain, and they have a habit, common to many cranes, of dancing. A black open-bill stork is just beyond the cranes. Close at hand swim a pair of pigmy geese and a crested grebe with a downy young one riding on its back. Beyond, a painted snipe displays its ocellated wing in flight; nearer are a long-toed plover with one of its downy young, a coot, and a gallinule; beyond, an anhinga swims toward three tree-ducks perched on a lump of mud. In the backgrou
. Birds the world over, as shown in habitat groups in Chicago Natural History Museum. Birds. where, in addition to eating insects, they dig up grain, and they have a habit, common to many cranes, of dancing. A black open-bill stork is just beyond the cranes. Close at hand swim a pair of pigmy geese and a crested grebe with a downy young one riding on its back. Beyond, a painted snipe displays its ocellated wing in flight; nearer are a long-toed plover with one of its downy young, a coot, and a gallinule; beyond, an anhinga swims toward three tree-ducks perched on a lump of mud. In the background are herons, egrets, and ducks. More crowned cranes are on a far mud bank, and a fishing eagle circles overhead. Looking closer, one sees lesser fowl; a black rail peers from the papyrus; a malachite kingfisher rests on a lily-pad; weaver- birds are nesting in the papyrus, where a little swamp flycatcher CHART ILLUSTRATING EXHIBIT OF BIRDS OF NILE PAPYRUS MARSH 1. Whale-headed stork (Balaeniceps rex) 12. 2. Crowned crane {Baleanca regulorum) 13. 3. Great crested grebe (/"(ii^/cc/ii irrwta/«j) 14. 4. Viviaxi ^oosc {Nettapus auritus) 15. 5. Buff-backed heron (B«A«/cui i'Aif) 16. 6. White-backed duck (TAfl/awora/i-/racono/ui) 17. 7. Painted snipe {Rostratula berighaUnsis) 18. 8. l^ong-locd plovtr {Hemiparra crassirostris) 19. 9. Airican']acana. {Actophilornis ajricana) 20. 10. Red-knobbed coot (F«/ica cm<a/a) 21. 11. Open-hiMcd sXotV [Anastomus lamelligerus) 22. White-faced tree duck {Dendrocygna viduata) Fish eagle {Cuncuma vocifer) Black crake (Limnocorax flaviroslra) King reed-hen (Porphyria madagascariensis) African darter (Anhinga ruja) Malachite kingfisher (Corythornis cristata) .Swamp flycatcher (Alseonax aquaticus) Sand plover (Charadrius pecuarius) Yellow-mantled whydah (Coliuspasser macrourus) Orange bishop (Euplectes Jranciscand) Yellow-collared weaver (Ploceus capitalis) 67'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images tha
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