Birds from British East Africa and Uyanda. 3 



This part covers the collection up to the end of the 

 Pelicans, and includes 92 species and subspecies. 



Mr. Willoughby Lowe's field and other notes are enclosed 

 in square brackets to distinguish them from my own 

 comments. 



Description of the Route. 



Mr. Lowe has kindly sent me a description of the 

 country passed through and the difficulties experienced by 

 Capt. Cozens' party ; these include some interesting notes 

 on the fauna and flora, amongst which attention may be 

 drawn to a valuable new record of the occurrence in British 

 East Africa of Verreaux's Eagle. 



I will here leave Mr. Lowe to continue the tale of the 

 expedition, the route of which can be followed on the map 

 specially prepared to illustrate it (Plate L). 



" A few days having been spent at Nairobi, we left for 

 Mr. Judd's farm near Kikuyu ; around there the country 

 is open and very fertile, with coffee plantations and a 

 few clumps of trees planted here and there. Birds were 

 plentiful. From Kikuyu we proceeded to Kijabe Station, 

 where we picked up our porters and started for the southern 

 trip. The country between Kijabe and Mt. Suswa was at 

 first wooded, and later opened out into extensive plains 

 which were found to be hot, dry, and dusty. No water 

 could be had until we reached Mt. Suswa, even then 

 it was not at all plentiful, and by no means good. Our 

 camp was pitched at the foot of Mt. Suswa, where game 

 abounds and is very tame. Ostriches were quite numerous, 

 and in the bush skirting the plains I surprised a fine 

 male within range of my 12-bore. Leaving Mt. Suswa we 

 moved on to the Mau Escarpment, passing westwards across 

 the Loita Plains and Lemek Valley to the Amala River, 

 which we reached on Oct. 9. The country hereabouts is 

 very grassy and park-like and teems with game, and birds 

 are likewise abundant. It was along this river, under a 

 shady tree, that on Oct. 23 I flushed a Pennant-winged 



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