The last Journal of W. A. Forbes. 531 



Nov. 1st. Greenshields went out before breakfast^ and 

 shot a young Ardea atricollis, in the stage with the neck 

 behind grey and in front white and buffy (upper mandible 

 black, lower bony, and ringed at base and apex with yellow 

 and along tomia with blackish ; lores naked, yellow, as is 

 space round eye ; a leaden streak below eye leads to beak ; 

 iris bright yellow; legs black). In factory all day. 



Nov. 2nd. Lots of Milvus parasiticus about factory in 

 morning ; also saw a Merops nubicus or two. Skinned a 

 Pluvianus which Greenshields had shot the previous evening. 

 About 4 we went down creek in canoe, but did not get 

 much (only a Corythornis and another of the yellow-chinned 

 Trichophorus) , though we saw lots of birds, Wishie-wishies, 

 and apparently another kind of Duck (no, it is (Edicnemus^, 

 an Oriolus, Kingfishers, &c. ; Schizorhis we saw several of ; 

 Merops nubicus was common, hawking in the air, flying 

 slowly, with alternate flapping of wings and gliding, and 

 uttering a low repeated note. Saw lots of Parr a. 



Nov. 3rd. Shot a Neophron pileatus in morning from 

 factory for a skeleton. Appetite decidedly better. In after- 

 noon went down creek again, but without very great results. 

 Got a young Parra (for coloration, see Hartlaub), a Merops 

 erythropterus in bad plumage, a Ceryle rudis, and an Ixos. 

 Went ashore amongst some really big forest-trees, but no 

 second-growth or creepers, and only long grass &c. below. 

 Quite a swarm of Merops nubicus flying very high over trees. 



Nov. 4th. Saw five of the brown Ibis in morning in front 

 of factory. They have a loud mewing Hornbill-like cry, and 

 fly like Cranes with extended downwardly directed head and 

 neck. Appetite much better, and made a heavy breakfast, 

 which kept me asleep most of the day. Skinned the Ixos. 

 Did not go out in the evening, Greenshields being busy with 

 his accounts. 



Nov. 5th. The weather the last few mornings has been 

 remarkably cool and fi-esh. Going on well. Went down 

 creek in afternoon in canoe alone, rather earlier than usual, 

 and got a long way down. Shot an adult Jacana, an 

 Ispidina cyanotis, one of the smaller Flycatchers so common 



