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Pictures of Bird Life 



country would prol)ably find tlieniselves very ill prepared for 

 roughing' it among the wilds. 



The heat in ]May was terrific, appearing to scorch through 

 my clothes, and even through my boots. We never stirred 

 out without a large earthenware jar. or chattie. in tlie pack- 

 saddles, full of water. In s])ite of this. I have often been 





Grey Shrike (Laiinis iiicndioiialti). 



glad of a drink from the store of a charcoal-burner or 

 herdsman. 



Xo wonder tlie natives look so dried up and copper- 

 coloured. The little blood left in their \e\\\s by the 

 mosquitoes must be entirely parched uj) by the intense and 

 fiery heat of the long simuner months — a heat which com- 

 pletely dries up the water from the whole of an immense 

 area. AVith the exception of the deeper lagoons, what was 



