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Urobrachya macroura, same as already sliot, with yellow 

 interscapulars ; Nectarinia pulchella quite common. A 

 female autelope, bright yellow-brown colour, paler below, 

 with black patches on fore legs, was brought in, apparently 

 Cervicapra bohor. 



Sept. 4th. Arthur disappeared. Went up the Lukoja 

 hill with Greenshields and five men. We started at 8.30 

 and took 55 minutes, including stops, to top a tough climb 

 over a rocky and pebbly path in bush. The top is a fine 

 park-like plateau, with more or less long grass and wooded, 

 not thickly, with scattered trees (sometimes big), acacias, &c. 

 Saw some of the red-flowered tree. Numerous " spoor " of 

 buffalo, antelope, and pig, but none seen. The hill consists 

 of metamorphic oolitic sandstone and a breccia-like conglo- 

 merate, or agglomerate, of red colour, with included rather 

 angular fragments. Shot a Drymceca on top, and saw some 

 Guinea-fowl {?Numida rendalli) , hut few other birds. Green- 

 shields caught some butterflies, dragonflies, and two moths. 

 Left about 2 and took 30 minutes, without a stop, to return 

 to old factory. Found that Arthur's body had been recovered, 

 having been found in the river a little way above white 

 mission house, the trousers and shirt on bank close by. Got 

 a small snake and a Calotes from Ankrah. 



Sept. 5th. Shot four Sunbirds in morning from lime-tree 

 in compound, including examples of two species new to me. 

 Afternoon skinning and looking after spirit-specimens. At 

 4 buried Arthur in bush just below model farm, and close 

 to graves of Consuls Fell and Maxwell, Avho died here in 1867, 

 the former the last white who had died here. Mr. Jones, a 

 Sierra-Leone black, of Church Missionary Society, performed 

 the service, Ashbury, Greenshields, and self, and about 

 twenty blacks assisting. The soil is a reddish clay, appa- 

 rently of half-decomposed basalts and igneous rocks ; no solid 

 rock seen in grave. Abiga shot several " deer " to-day and 

 day before, close to town. Got five of the green-headed 

 lizard from a boy at old factory. Saw a couple of Agapornis 

 feeding on long grass on the banks of the creeks intersecting 

 the town. 



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