| Whoever has once set eyes on the boatbill or Savacou will never forget the bird, or confound it with any other. |
| The boatbill is a nocturnal animal and a shallow-water feeder. |
| Bonaparte regards it as intermediate between the pelican and the boatbill. |
| In the ponds we may encounter the Green Ibis, Snowy Egrets, Boatbill heron, the Purple Gallinule and the Wattled Jacana and many others. |
| If we listen to Reinhurdt, we must place it, not alongside of the boatbill, but alongside of the African genus Scopus. |
