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The Saddle-beaked Stork.
(Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis.)
This species of Stork is one of the handsomest as well as the largest of its kind, the males standing about five feet in height. Its home is Northern Africa, the bird frequenting more especially the sand-banks of the Nile and other rivers, and the shores of swamps and lakes. As yet but little is known of its habits or mode of living. The Saddle-beaked Stork is remarkable not only for the startling colours of its huge beak, but also for the extraordinary flat, yellow plate at the base of its upper mandible from which it has obtained it name.