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bushes, together with innumerable red-clay hills of the white 

 ants. 



On the 11th we made up a party to go to Quamin-fio, some 

 ten miles inland, where we remained two days ; here we col- 

 lected several good birds, among others Caprimulgus longipennis, 

 Hirundo senegalensis, Nilaus hrubru, and CEdicnemus senegalensis. 

 Had we devoted our time entirely to sport, we might here have 

 made a very fair bag of antelopes and Francolins. 



To the west of Accra, beyond the Salt Pond, the country is 

 also good for antelopes, especially the harness-back ; and here 

 we also found three species of Francolins plentiful. 



On the 18th we started for Abouri, in the Agua-pim district. 

 After travelling about eight miles, the country became densely 

 bushed, so that we had to keep entirely to the path. Towards 

 the outskirts of the plain of Accra we passed a small spring ; 

 and here birds were extremely numerous and varied. We put 

 up for the night at Abokobi, with the German missionaries ; 

 and as it was late when we arrived, the glow of innumerable 

 fire-flies lighted up the ground. We remained here the follow- 

 ing day ; but the bush was so dense that we could obtain but 

 few birds ; so we devoted some of our attention fo the butter- 

 flies, which were so abundant that we collected nearly fifty 

 species in one morning. 



On the morning of the 20th we left Abokobi ; and after two 

 hours' tedious journey along a level, narrow path, we came into 

 much finer scenery as we ascended the hills of the Agua-pim 

 range, and finally arrived at Abouri about mid-day, where we 

 again put up with the German missionaries, who were most 

 hospitable, and rendered us every assistance they could in col- 

 lecting. 



Having now concluded our journal, it may be thought not 

 out of place for us here to make a few remarks from our per- 

 sonal notes upon the distribution and habits of some of the birds 

 which have already been recorded from the Gold Coast, while 

 we shall keep in a separate list, at the end, all the species we 

 obtained which have not hitherto been mentioned by Mr. Sharpe 

 in his numerous papers in this Journal on the birds of Fantee. 

 Scotornis climacurus is very abundant throughout the district ; 



