-^ To KiliiiKinjaro with 1^-ince Lowenstein 



days out of the shell with Ic^custs, the slightly bigg-er 

 ones tound their nourishment in ripe grass-seeds. 



The weaver-bird which I myself discovered in iSqq 

 {P/oi'cns sc/n//m_osi) was now mating ; and the prince 

 collected a number of specimens of this handsome bird, of 

 which the niales when old are coloured a beautifully 

 gleaming gold, and which always builds its nest right 

 over the water, either in bushes or among reeds. 



A female ostrich which I shot, and of which I jjre- 

 sented the contents of the stomach to the Berlin Museum, 

 had been eating nothing but grass-seed in enormous 

 quantities and had produced an o.^^^^ out of season. 

 But for this one ^^g the ovaries were completely 

 inactive. The natives told me that when the grass 

 grows so suddenly ostriches lay single eggs not in- 

 frequently, out ot the breeding-season, when straying on 

 the velt. 



We moved our camp down-stream for some days, and, 

 while Prince Lciwenstein had the good luck to bring 

 down a tine rhinoceros running close to me, we suddenly 

 came upon a herd of buffaloes out in the open on the 

 same day- — more than sixty of them — enjoying their siesta 

 in the shade of some acacia-trees, side by side with 

 water-buck {Codns aff. cllipsipryniniis) and Grant's gazelles 

 {Gazcila grant i). 



Most unfortunately I did not succeed in photographing 

 them, either standing still or running ; I had not got 

 my apparatus yet into complete working order, and the 

 light, moreover, was unfavourable. 



Out of this herd the prince and I shot one bull and 



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