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edible and " spiny ;" also that a shark was killed there lately 

 and another at Egga. 



Sept. 15th. Got to Egga about 9 and landed at factory 

 in a bargCj the water being too low for steamer to come 

 alongside, the passage up a very narrow channel. Saw some 

 Jacanas close to town, also a Sterna, Plotus, Balearica, Pluvi- 

 anus, Eupledes abyssimcus, and Hyphantornis personatus in 

 acacia bushes by river. The town is well built of round mud 

 huts, in mud-walled compounds and very narrow streets. Got 

 a toad in factory and head of big fish (31 x 24| inches in 

 girth, 17^ lbs.). Adipose fin; ventral fin rather thoracic, 

 very bony; white flesh. There is a tree in yard crowded 

 with Hyphantornis textor, and a large tree (? Adamsonia) 

 outside more so, with, I should say, near 1000 nests. 



Sept. 16th. Convalescent. Repacked my baggage. There 

 are lots of the two common house-lizards here, and a pair of 

 Corvus curvirostris came to the big tree outside. Green- 

 shields left for Tchunga. 



S. Sept. irth. Went out shooting with Macintosh down 

 the river, but only got one Chenalopex, though we saw lots 

 of it, and a Duck, apparently a Dendrocyyna. On one of 

 the banks Glareola cinerea was in thousands, with a few of 

 a darker one [t nordmani), one of which I got; also lots of 

 Pluvianus and several flocks of Rhynchops. Also saw several 

 Balearica, the large white black-billed Ardea, a Merops, 

 Vidua principalis , and shot a Chrysococcyx. 



Sept. 18th. In about factory all day. Got from Mr. 

 Bishop a fine pair of horns of an Alcelaphus, apparently Alce- 

 laphus tor a. 



Sept. 19th. Out with Macintosh in morning. He shot a 

 Chenalopex, and we saw plenty; also a pair of Balearica 

 and some Plectropterus. He shot for me also a pair of a 

 deeply-forked-tailed Swallow (? Atticora melbind), very com- 

 mon on the sand-banks ; and I got a Sandpiper on canoe as 

 it lay on beach. Saw a Porphyrio ; alleni, I suppose. Shitta 

 brought in one of the large " singing ^^ snails (? a Paludina), 

 and later another still larger. The canoe-boys believed in it, 

 and pointed out the Paludina as the performer. Had a ride 

 in evening. 



