With Flashlight and Rifle 



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A newl)' laid egg of this bastard was brouglit to me, measuring 

 52 X 44 millimetres. The evolutions of the bird on the wing are 

 very quaint and comical. 



Gruidae 



49. Bakarica rcgnlornm gihbcriccps, Rchw. Mcrker Lake. 



I found this crane mating in July. In September and January 

 I came upon great flocks of them on Kilimanjaro. I found many 

 also in Kavirondo, on the Nguaso-Nyiro River, and on the Nayasha 

 Lake. At night they utter a curiously grating kind of cry. 



Parridae 



50. Actopliilns africauHs{Qin\.). Rufu River, VI. ; Njiri swamps, 

 VIL, VIII. 



I found the floating nests of this jacana in July on the swamps, 

 with its wonderfully coloured eggs not yet nearly hatched. 



51. Microparra capcusis (A. Sm.). Western Njiri s\vamp>--, VII. 

 I brought down a pair on July 6th. At some distance from the 



river they were not very shy. 



Rallidas 



52. Or.r ar,r (L.) Central Pangani, III. 



I have seldom been able to start corncrakes from out of the 

 reeds. 



53. Limnocorax iiigcr (Gm.). Donje Erok, VIII. ; Rufu River, 

 III. ; Njiri swamps, VII. ; Kiba\'a Masai, III. 



This bird gives out a very distinctive cr}-. 



54. Ortygometra piisilla obsaira (Ncum.). Njiri swamps, VI. 

 Seen three times ; killed once. 



55. Gallimila cJiloropus (L.). Njiri swamps, VII. 

 Moorhens I found also in large numbers on Lake Nayasha. 



56. Fiilica cyistata, Gm. Lakes Nakuro and Nayasha and the 

 western swamps, VII. 



Great flocks in January on Lake Nayasha. I cannot subscribe 

 to O. Neumann's statement that these coots dislike warm waters. 



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