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colony on a small tree over some water (nests purse-like^ not 

 pensile, strangely) ^ mixed up with a smaller black-fronted 

 species, and a Crithagra chrysojjyga, which is not at all rare 

 (in twos and threes) and has rather a pretty song. D. Mac- 

 intosh on the ' Fulali/ with the ' Jessie ' in tow, turned up 

 on return; and about 12 we started off up the river for Lu- 

 koja on board the ' Fulah/ Passed Onitschi, the town quite 

 invisible from the river, and Asaba, and had shots at some 

 Hippopotami on way. 



Aug. 24.th. Met the ' Busybody,' with Mr. Ashcroft on 

 board, about 8. He was fixing up a new station, and had 

 been collecting birds for me, amongst them two Glareola 

 cinerea, which he gave me. The banks here are about 15 

 feet high, nearly vertical, of a compact reddish-yellow or 

 grey loam, not obviously stratified ; in other parts only 

 sections of recent sand-banks are seen. Saw a large flock of 

 Psittacus, some Hornbills (? Berenicurnis or Buceros elatus), 

 some Plectropterus, Ardea, &c. Banks thickly wooded with 

 pretty dense, but not big, forest, M'ith bnt few big trees or 

 llianas. Heard some leopards miauling in bush at night. 



Aug. 25th. Up to Idda about 9, a large town on left bank 

 of river on a high bluff, with vertical cliff's towards river, 

 perhaps 120 to 150 feet high, apparently of an altered sand- 

 stone of a red colour, laminated or stratified in places, with 

 contemporaneous veins (?) rnnning nearly horizontal. Saw a 

 number of white Egrets and Plotus on a high tree. Towards 

 noon got in amongst the high country, with flat-topped hills, 

 apparently remains of a continuous tableland. 



Aug, 26th. Amongst the hills still, just below Beaufort 

 Island, apparently of a much jointed compact yellowish sand- 

 stone, weathering out into large boulders. Some of the hills 

 conical and nearly isolated, others flat-topped ; Mount d'Or, 

 one of the highest, rounded. Saw apparently a couple of 

 Chenalopex on a sand-bank, also some Hornbills. Lukoja 

 mountain, long, low, and flat-topped, to left of river, ascend- 

 ing. Saw a couple of Balearica on a bank, here called 

 crown-birds. The country here, above Beaufort Island, 

 seems to fall away and become less hilly and flatter, the hills 



