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XXVI. — On a Collection of Birds made on the White Nile 

 between Khartum and Fashoda. By W. R. Ogilvie- 

 Grant. With an Introduction and Field-notes by R. M'^D. 

 Hawker. 



(Plates X. & XI.) 



I. Short Narrative of the Journey, by R. M°D. Hawker. 

 With the object of collecting Natural History specimens, I 

 left England at the end of December 1900, my intention 

 being to go up the White Nile as far as its junction with 

 the Sobat, and after travelling thence, in a south-easterly 

 direction through the Nuer country to Lake Rudolf, to 

 return home via Mombasa. 



The Director of the Natural History Museum and 

 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant provided me with letters of introduction to 

 the officials in the Sudan, requesting them to give me every 

 help to further my expedition, and I engaged the services of 

 two taxidermists, Messrs. C. F. Camburn and J. R.Thurston. 



Arriving at Port Said on January 1st, 1901, I proceeded 

 to Cairo and called on Sir RenncU Rodd, who, on the pro- 

 duction of my letters from the Natural History Museum, 

 arranged with the Financial Secretary to have my heavy 

 baggage passed unopened through the Customs. I also 

 called on Lord Cromer, who kindly gave me a letter to the 

 Sirdar, Sir Reginald Wingate, at Khartum, 



On January 9tli I was joined by my companion, Mr. G. 

 H. Cheetham ; on the 11th our baggage arrived at Cairo, 

 and thanks to Dr. Keatinge, of the Cairo School of Medicine, 

 was re-trucked at once for Chellal. Colonel Gordon, R.E., 

 had kindly arranged with the Sudan Railway to have the 

 baggage transported as soon as possible, so we left Cairo on 

 the 12th with the hope that it would arrive at Khartum 

 soon after us. It did not, however, reach that place till 

 January 27th, and we had the mortification of seeing several 

 shooting-parties, which arrived after us, starting up the 

 White Nile sooner. 



I called on the Sirdar and presented Lord Cromer's letter. 

 The Sirdar informed me that we should be helped in eyerj 



