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apparently moulting, whereas many E. franciscanus in full 

 plumage. Shot a ragged female, same as male, some still in 

 yellow-and-black dress. Also got a Crithagra chrysopyga. 

 Got a good-sized Clarias and another Siluroid, also a large- 

 scaled barbel-like fish, from natives. 



Nov. 17th. Finished-off Parrot in morning; put fresh 

 spirit in tins &c. In evening went down to bush and palm- 

 groves, where I saw many birds — Colius, Hornbills, King- 

 fishers, Ibis, &c. ; but all out of shot, and only got a ragged 

 (moulting) Weaver-bird of a species new and unknown to 

 me, with black crown and broad rufous eyebrows (ptil. 

 hyem.). The note of the Lvos usually is a mellow whistle 

 of two notes, the second stronger and more pronounced. 

 Tree on beach with Palm-birds' nests now quite deserted, 

 and Greenshields says young flown. This, taken with other 

 facts {Hyphantornis persotiatus), looks as if Weaver-birds bred 

 during wet season (of. Abutschi), moult into non-breeding 

 dress, and take to fields in flocks. Greenshields got me a 

 nice living Cyclanosteus from the natives. 



Nov. 18th. Down to palm-groves early. Got some good 

 birds, three new, Cossypha alhicapilla, Andropadus sp.?, and 

 Anthus pratensis, another species, the doubtful Weaver, the 

 fine Nectarinia, and Criniger gularis, and saw many others — 

 Poeocephalus, Palaornis and Agapornis (both in some num- 

 bers), Colius, Irrisor, a pair of a Musophaga, the striolated 

 Halcyon (?one at Abutschi), the rufous-fronted Timelia, kc, 

 &c. The Ibis is, I believe, falcinellus after all. I saw a Coly 

 clinging to tree-trunk (a vertical palm-stem) just like a 

 Woodpecker, one of which, also of a species not seen before, 

 was just above it. Both Irrisor and Colius are very wary, 

 keeping just in front of you out of shot, and flying from one 

 palm-crown to another. I rather thought I recognized a 

 fourth Parrot, a Poeocephalus of the meyeri lot, but too far 

 away to be certain of. Greenshields got me a nice Muraenoid 

 fish (about 30 inches), with very small eyes. Skinned birds 

 all day. Greenshields went down to palms in evening, but 

 only got an Ixos. 



Nov. 19th. Down to palm-groves in morning. Got two 



