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tricular patches, particularly one, are rather elevated mar- 

 ginally. Fish (all small and transfixed) in stomach, with 

 nematodes, though many taeniae. Remade all cartridges. 

 Greenshields shot a Halcyon senegalensis close to new factory. 

 Saw an adult Ardea atricollis in rice-fields opposite. Did 

 not go out in evening. 



Nov. 14th. Went out about 6.30 on hills behind factory 

 towards town, but only got another Whinchat and two 

 Merops nubicus, which was in numbers on two or three trees. 

 Saw a fine pair of a red-headed grey-backed Falco (? ruft- 

 collis) and a flock of apparently Foudia erythrops, but only 

 one was in colour, and that flew. Got two fine Malaptururus 

 and a Percine form from natives. In evening went down 

 creek, but only got a Halcyon [dry as ?) and a Lacerta ; the 

 latter caught in canoe. " Flogging palaver " in evening. 

 Saw a single Palceornis in creek. 



Nov. 15tli. Started about 6.30 a.m. in canoe, and went up 

 left arm of creek. Unlucky ; only got a Jacana and a small 

 Warbler, apparently Acrocephalus arundinaceus . Saw a 

 Plectropterus, Emblema rufopicta, Limnocorax, several Ardea 

 purpurea, Laniarius, an Oriole, Ceryle gig ant ea, seven young 

 Nycticorax (? europceus), and four Irrisor (apparently Irrisor 

 pusUlus), &c., &c., three together, but all unfortunately out 

 of shot. They fly with tail stretched out straight behind. 

 Saw two Balearica, each perched on top of a tree answering 

 each other. Greenshields got my gun " fixed " again safely. 

 Got six half-grown examples of the Percine form. In after- 

 noon caught a few butterflies &c. and a very fine bug — in 

 life straw-colour, with Veronese-green spots and red sinuous 

 line on prothorax. 



Nov. 16th. Went out in morning along footpath at base 

 of hills to near bush on creek. Got four or five new birds, 

 including a Parrot, apparently Poeocephalus rufiventris, and 

 saw more ; also one or two Acrocephalus turdoides (in bushy 

 part), a Diymcsca (?new), and Estrelda cinerea. Also 

 saw Euplectes oryx in flocks with last, Euplectes francis- 

 canus, Urobrachya macroura, Hyphantornis personatus, Sper- 

 mestes cucullata, &c. ; all Euplectes oryx out of full colour. 



