jabiroos

The Red Lily lagoons lie away from the Roper, on either side of it, wide-spreading and shallow -- great sheets of water with tall reeds and rushes about them, and glorious in flowering time with their immense cup-shaped crimson blossoms clustering on long stalks above great floating leaves -- leaves nearly approaching three feet in diameter I think; and everywhere about the leaves hover birds and along the margins of the lagoons stalk countless waders, cranes, jabiroos, and oftentimes douce native companions.

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915