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sliore and saw a beautiful red-black Nectarinia singing quite 

 sweetly in a gingeri-tree, which has an agreeable drupaceous 

 fruit. In old factory Spermestes cucuUata is very common ; 

 a nest I found was built on ground^ of grass, lined with fea- 

 thers, contained a pure white egg and three newly hatched 

 down-covered young. The red- and green-headed lizards both 

 common round houses. Hyphantornis teoctor in great swarms 

 in trees of town, the Spermestes also nesting in a mango in the 

 compound of factory, M'here the Turtur was also walking 

 about quite tame. Got away about 1 and Avent up the Binue, 

 passing a large town on right as you enter the Binue, called 

 Gandi, with the tableland behind and to left of us. Wooded 

 banks on both sides. 



Aug. 29th. Steaming up, the Binue running very rapidly 

 against us, with lots of Pistia and floating drift-grass. This 

 river rises a little earlier, even more rapidly, than the Niger ; 

 only navigable by steamer for about three months ; for the 

 rest of the year very low and full of snags and sand-banks. 

 The French have factories at Lukoja and Loko. The banks 

 generally low and wooded ; saw some high land in distance 

 to left in morning, and earlier passed an isolated rising 

 facing river by a steep bluff, apparently due to a thick 

 slightly inclined (dip ?) basalt bed, overlying a compact yel- 

 low sandstone. Saw several Plectropterus (nearly certain 

 gambensis, but ? head), and five or six Hornbills, apparently 

 Buceros buccinator, with white wings and tail. "Arthur" 

 down with fever, temperature 103°*8; mine, Greenshields''s, 

 and a boy's about 99°"6. Only passed two towns on left hand 

 (or bank), Rumasha and Amara ; there used to be a station 

 at former. Above it we passed Mr, Watson in the ' Rosie ' 

 launch with a large boat in tow. 



Aug. 30th. At Loko by 8. Went on shore shooting and 

 again after chop, getting back by 4. Got a lot of birds, in- 

 cluding an Indicator, Turtur, a Pogonias, Drymceca, Ixos and 

 young?, Hijpochera (common), Critliagra, Estrelda phceni- 

 cotis, a fine Pytelia (one out of a lot in tree), a male Hyphan- 

 tornis (? text or, male in non-breeding dress, the bird being 

 common here), a black Pceoptera ?, a Muscicapine form 



