Ji6 Notes OH Jungle and Oilier inid Life. 



Though so near London, we are infested with Owls here; 

 would that some member would inform us how to keep them 

 away — they have only actually injured one of our birds so far, 

 but. too often, in the morning one finds a bald head, the result 

 of being frightened on to the wire by owls in the night, and a 

 bird without feathers on its crown looks hideous till it grows 

 them again. 



The cock Rufous-tail — the parent of the above men- 

 tioned young is one of the seventeen bred in 1916 by Lady 

 Smiuelson, from whom we obtained it in that year. 



Later (October 17) : The young Gouldian in the Fire- 

 finches' nest died two days ago. South Kensington reports 

 a yellow and diseased liver " — probably a fatty one — its 

 cliange of diet evidently did not agree with it. 



The Avadavat's eggs turned out to be infertile; the 

 Rufous-tails had six fertile eggs in their third nest, which, as 

 too late for this year, will also repose in South Kensington. 



Notes on Jungle and other Wild Life. 



By Dr. Casey A. Wood, M.B.O.U. 

 Continued from page ig6. 



Second in splendour only to the Falls themselves are the 

 lo\ely mist and other meteorologic effects produced by the 

 roaring mass of falling waters as they are dashed into foam 

 on the rocks below; indeed it is only by watching the ever- 

 changing river valley from sunrise to sunset that one can 

 appreciate the dissolving views to be seen in and about the 

 Kaieteur Valley. I was so impressed by their weird beauty 

 tnat I proposed (to myself) to name this million-year-old 

 canyon the Gorge of the Enchanted Mists. I am confident you 

 will agree, when you visit it, that the title is not undeserved. 



In the early morning (we generally rose before daybreak) 

 I he spray and fog filled most of the depths and overflowed the 

 margins of the gorge; soon, under the influence of the sun's 

 rays the silvery curtain was drawn and several miles of glim- 

 mering but placid stream was seen above the Fall, shortly 

 followed by a sight of the reddish water plunging, in several 

 divisions, over the rocky ledge. Nothing more of the Fall 



