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running transversely across the river on both banks. Got to 

 Lukoja^ passing Tybebe on left bank just before^ about noon, 

 and left again in an hour's time for Magagi, the country above 

 Lukoja being a high tableland, coming down to river by 

 steep inclines, more or less wooded. Got to Magagi by 

 dark. 



S. Aug. 27th. At Magagi, discharging and loading cargo, 

 with some difficulty in getting alongside, the water being 

 shoal. Went on shore ; but though I saw lots of birds, shot 

 vilely, loosing or missing all but a Platystira (eye-wattle 

 vermilion, tarsal planta pseudo-mesomyodian, but syrinx osci- 

 nine). A Tbca^s rather common; and also saw from steamer 

 a Berenicornis, with head and tail, except two median rec- 

 trices, white. Saw lots of EujAectes franciscanus, Spermestes 

 cucullata, the Ixos, a Turtur, &c. Lots of butterflies. Saw 

 a black-and-white Motacilla and a yellow-wattled and legged 

 LobivnneUus (senegalensis ?) . Macintosh got for me a Cerco- 

 pithecus alive from factory, quite young, with long fur, fleshy 

 face, smutty nose, tipped ears, and a black facial ring (? Cer- 

 copithecus nisnas). They also had a Cercopithecus sabaus 

 and a Cynocephalus, apparently Cynocephalus sphinx, both 

 young. Lots of Pluvianus. Got photos of nests of Hyphan- 

 tornis teootor in town. Returned quickly to Lukoja, and 

 before dark went on shore and shot a Waxbill, apparently 

 Rhodopyga rhodopsis, not at all rare in town. Pluvianus on 

 beach walking about or flying over water in numbers. 



Aug. 28th. Went on shore early to hills behind town 

 and got a lot of birds amongst small bushy trees, a Picus, 

 Chrysococcyx, Turtur senegalensis (in town and compound), 

 Estrelda melpoda, E. minima ?, E. nigricollis, two species of 

 Nectarinia, a Hirundo, and two or three others. Saw also 

 Scopus, Eupledes franciscanus, E. flammiceps, Urobrachya 

 macroura, in grassy hills &c. outside town. Hill vol- 

 canic, quartzite- or felsite-looking, or metamorphic, cleared, 

 with grass. Got a bright yellow-red antelope-skin from 

 Macintosh. The commonest birds in town of Lukoja are 

 Passer simplex. Neophron, Spermestes cucullata, Hypochera, 

 and Estrelda senegala or minima. After breakfast again on 



