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rediscover it, though somewhat strange that it should have 

 remained unrecognised all these years. 



Although I have not met with this form up to the present 

 in the Giza Province it probably occurs there, and I insert 

 it in the present paper, as I consider that it is of 

 importance to call attention to this long unrecognised bird. 

 During the winter I have never met with any Hoopoes in 

 the Province, but all those obtained while passing through 

 during the migration-seasons — when they are very abundant 

 — belong to the small race. 



[To be continued.] 



XXV. — Notes on a Collection of Birds made in British East 

 Africa. By Gerard H. Gurney, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



With the combined objects of shooting big game and 

 collecting birds, I left England for East Africa on December 

 26th, 1908, and after an uneventful voyage arrived at 

 Mombasa on January 15th, 1909. After spending three 

 days there I went, with Sir Edmund Loder (himself a good 

 naturalist and a splendid shot), by train to Nairobi. Our 

 original intention had been to go on a shooting-trip to the 

 little-known Lake Natron ; but, finding that this plan was, 

 for several reasons, impracticable, we decided first of all to 

 make an expedition to the Kauti Plains. So after all the 

 necessary arrangements for a long expedition into the inte- 

 rior had been made, we started in an easterly direction from 

 Nairobi and marched across the Athi Plains to the Athi 

 River as far as Donio Sabuk ; thence we turned to the left, 

 recrossed the Athi River, and proceeded over the Kauti 

 Plains nearly as far as Mount Twiniango. Then we retraced 

 our steps, and followed for some days the Thika River, 

 which we finally crossed near Voroni. We came back by 

 the east side of Donio Sabuk, returning to Nairobi on 

 February 17th. Three days later, by the advice of Mr. F. J. 

 Jackson, 1 went up to Naivasha, where I spent four weeks, 

 chiefly camping at the south end of the lake and on the west 



