TANGANYIKA (1) I4I 
enough and I was also told that a similar procedure was employed 
for beating up monkeys and baboons. When these became too 
troublesome in the natives’ plantations, they conveniently placed 
coconut shells under the trees, but instead of filling them with the 
natural milk, they replaced this with their potent coconut “beer.” 
When the animals had had their fill and had become a bit stupid, 
they were promptly chased by a crowd of natives, who attacked 
and killed them with sticks or bows and arrows, thereby teaching 
the rest a severe lesson. 
I made one short trip to the western Usambaras, which rise to 
a height of seventy-five hundred feet. To get there meant motor- 
ing through the hot plains with miles of sisal plantations on all 
sides. This is a monotonous crop to look at, but being a succulent it 
survives where most other crops perish in times of drought— 
which are all too frequent in Tanganyika. 
It was wonderful, on leaving the plains, to wind up and up the 
zigzag road to Lushoto and feel the air getting cooler and cooler. 
When the sun set at Lushoto the air became cold so rapidly that it 
was a comfort to sit in front of a log fire in the hotel lounge. 
At this altitude I found the beautiful Golden-winged Sunbirds 
that I had first encountered in the Kenya Highlands, feeding on 
leonotis. In the forest I was fortunate in capturing a pair of 
White-starred Bush Robins—one of the smallest but most attrac- 
tive of the African robin-chats—which have a conspicuous white 
spot above each eye in the otherwise blue-gray plumage of the 
head. 
By the time I left the Usambaras for England I had some ex- 
ceedingly fine birds in my collection. The sunbirds alone made a 
fine show and comprised the following species—Golden-winged, 
Lesser Bifasciated, Kenya Buff-breasted, East African Mariqua, 
Usambara Double-collared, Scarlet-chested, Mombasa Collared, 
Uluguru Violet-backed and Usambara Gray-chin Sunbirds. 
