03 Dan Meinertzhagen's Diary. 



Cuckoo appears to be most noisy during the 

 light nights. 



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About midnight, a Great Grey Shrike flew 

 across the river just in front of the boat. At 

 about five o'clock in tlie morning, we arrived at 

 Katkesuando, 21 miles from 'Niska. Here Bob 

 shot a Short-eared Owl. We had a good 

 sleep, and on waking in the evening, we found 

 it blowing and raining, fairly beastly weather. 

 Now we found our mackintosh rugs most useful 

 in putting over the boxes and cages. I am 

 sure no one, on such a trip, should be without 

 something of the sort. Here I got a Mealy 

 Redpole's nest — a perfect picture — lined 

 with cotton grass, which grows in all the 

 marshes. 



Dan's diary ends abruptly here. He was too busy on 

 the journey to Tromso to continue it, and after he returned 

 home, he was always intending to finish it from memory, 

 but, somehow he never did. 



