With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



that of unoilcd wheels accompanies tht-ir tllc^ht. It is one 

 ot the strangest sounds I have ever heard gi\en forth 

 by birds, and may often be noticed on a clear moonlight 

 night for hours together. Now they have settled down 

 on the tree-branches for their night's rest, and their 

 imposing outlines form a super!) accessory to the 

 ornithological nnse-eu-schic. 



The darkness grows apace, once the sun has set. 

 Great flocks of geese and ducks have already taken Bight, 



CKIiSTED CRANES WINGED THEIR WAY TO IHEIR .SECI'KE NIGHT- 

 RESORTS~THE ACACIA-TREES ON I H E ISLANDS IN THE SWAMl'S 



but Strange sounds l)(-tray the presence still of manv 

 feathered inmates of the marsh, and the whi/zing of the 

 numerous night-hcn-ons is now more audibK; than ever. 



n we are in luck, we shall j)erhaps hear now a long- 

 drawn, reverljcrating roar. The king of beasts is gc;tting 

 read\- tor the chase and lor a tew minutes his mighty 

 voice lends to the trojjical (;vening its greatest magic. 



\\'here\er th(' r\v turns it sees the gleaming lights 

 of the lire-tlies swaying hither and thither, u[) and down, 



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