THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 

 No. 100. APRIL 1896. 



XXXVII. — Report on a Collection of Reptiles and Fishes made 

 by Miss M. H. Kingsley during her Travels on the Ogowe 

 River and in Old Calabar. By Dr. A. GiJNTHER, F.R.S. 



[Plates XIII.-XV.] 



Miss Mary H. Kingsley, on returning from her first visit 

 to the West Coast of Africa in 1894, brought with her a small 

 miscellaneous collection of zoological specimens, sufficiently- 

 large to show the interest she took in the fauna of the countries 

 visited by her. Last year she started again from England, 

 with the object of extending her travels in the interior of the 

 Gaboon country ; and as she intended to follow during a part 

 of this expedition the course of the Ogowe River, she readily 

 fell in with my view that an opportunity of collecting the 

 fishes of this mighty river should not be lost. The means of 

 preserving and transporting the specimens were naturally 

 limited, as Miss Kingsley travelled alone with a native crew; 

 besides, whilst traversing the region of the rapids, which 

 extends over some hundred of miles, the upsetting of her 

 canoe was a matter of frequent occurrence. Nevertheless she 

 succeeded in bringing home in excellent condition a collection 

 of eighteen species of Reptiles and about sixty-five species of 

 Fishes, which will be enumerated or described in this paper, 

 besides a number of other, especially entomological, specimens. 



During a temporary stay at Old Calabar and a visit to the 

 island of Corisco some freshwater fishes were added to the 



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