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Londiani Mountain in the neighbourhood is 9.855 feet high 

 at its highest point and when we had fought our way over the 

 mountain ridge we met, for the first time, other birds who were 

 natives of this region. On both sides of the road there were 

 enormous forests, which were sometimes superseded by bamboo. 

 Among the birds shot here may be mentioned: Apalis porphyro- 

 laema, which in flocks of 4—6 in number searched for insects 

 high up among the branches, Buteo oreopJiikis, Buteo augur, 

 Alseonax minimus tnurinus, Irrisor bollei jacksoni and £oice- 

 phalus gulielmi massaicus. 



About two days' march from Londiani, towards Eldoret, 

 when we encamped on the edge of a forest, about 9.000 feet 

 high, on a slope covered with trees and bushes we shot out of 

 a large flock sitting perched in the trees two specimens of 

 Ciconia ciconia ciconia, which had surely been detained here 

 but were now on their return to palaearctic regions. Vinago 

 calva salvadorii and Turacus hartlaiihi medius were very common 

 in the forests. 



The last 25 miles of road before reaching Eldoret pass 

 through alternating acacia-plains and grass-plains, on the average 

 about 7.200 feet above sea-level. In the former, as elsewhere, 

 we met Macronyx croceus, Lamprocolius chalyhaeus chalybaeus, 

 Anthus leucophrys very often, and in the bush-plains, which at 

 certain places occupied small areas, Jynx ruficollis cocensi was 

 not uncommon. 



In the grass-plains near the Uasin Gishu plateau I now 

 met Urobrachya pJioenicea phoenicea for the first time, which 

 was found here in flocks, but were, nevertheless most numerous 

 in places where there was any water. This bird was, in contra- 

 distinction to the majority of others bird occurring here, shy 

 and cautious and therefore very difficult to approach within 

 range. In the reed vegetation growing on the banks of a little 

 stream the bird I have described anew, Cisticola tinniens sub- 

 rufescens, was found rather commonly. This little bird was 

 extremely difficult to discover as it hopped about among the 

 reed-straws and it was still more difficult to find the birds shot. 

 Thus I only succeeded in procuring two specimens. Both here 

 and at the neighbouring locality, Eldoret, the rare and exceedingly 

 beautiful pipit Macronyx ameliae wintoni was found, but not 

 commonly, and everywhere I saw Myrmecocichla aethiops crypto- 

 leuca. 



At Eldoret, about 75 miles' distance north-west of Londiani, 

 we stayed two days. This place is the centre of the Uasin Gishu 

 Plateau. This plateau is a fertile tract of grassy country a little 

 to the North of the Equator. It has an area of some 90 miles 

 long by 30 miles broad and an altitude of from 4.500 to 6.000 

 feet. The first South African settlers arrived in 1906 and now 

 there are approximately 20.000 acres under cultivation. The 



