. Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : From observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan . Natural history; Indigenous peoples; Ethnology. 26 EASTERN ETHIOPIA II Of birds the following will interest him : ostriches, bustards, eagles, hawks, and vultures ; shrikes sit on the telegraph wires. Among others he will recognise the glossy starling, drongo, weaver birds, chats, the crowned crane, hornbill, touraco, coly, swallow, bee-eater, stork, oxpecker, and the secretary bird. The Uganda Railway is unit|ue of its kind, for it is probably the only railroad in the world where monke
. Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : From observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan . Natural history; Indigenous peoples; Ethnology. 26 EASTERN ETHIOPIA II Of birds the following will interest him : ostriches, bustards, eagles, hawks, and vultures ; shrikes sit on the telegraph wires. Among others he will recognise the glossy starling, drongo, weaver birds, chats, the crowned crane, hornbill, touraco, coly, swallow, bee-eater, stork, oxpecker, and the secretary bird. The Uganda Railway is unit|ue of its kind, for it is probably the only railroad in the world where monkeys swing on the telegraph wires ; giraffes break the wire with their long necks in crossing the track, and the rhinoceros tilts at telegraph poles in true cjuixotic style. As a rule, the laugh is with the animal. On rare occasions a lion promenades the platform and interferes with business. T-iron (eight feet long, eight inches wide, and a quarter inch thick), used as a pedestal for a telegraph post. It was twisted i>y an 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 Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936. London : Macmillan and Co. , Limited
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