THE I B I S. 



FIFTH SERIES. 



No. XXIII. JULY 1888. 



XXVI. — List of Birds collected in Eastern Africa by Mr. 

 Frederick J. Jackson, F.Z.S. By Capt. G. E. Shelley, 

 F.Z.S. With Notes and an Introduction by the Collector. 



(Plates VI. & VII.) 



I. Indroduction. By F. J. Jackson. 



On Nov. 17, 1884, I left Loudon in the British Indian s.s. 

 ' Henyada ' to join my friend Mr. J. G. Haggard, H.B.M.^s 

 Vice-Consul in Lamu, for some big-game shooting and to 

 collect natural-history specimens. On Dec. 25 I arrived at 

 Lamu, a port on the east coast of Africa, some 300 miles 

 north of Zanzibar. For the first two and a half months I 

 did not do much, either shooting or collecting, but after 

 two or three short trips to the mainland, in which I shot a 

 few Waterbucks and Hartebeests, I made preparations for a 

 trip up the river Lana, intending to proceed into the Galla 

 country, making my dhow my head-quarters. 



On March 22, accordingly, I started in a fair-sized dhow, 

 with my own boat (a Dundee whale-boat, with air-tight com- 

 partments) in tow, and with 22 men, including the dhow's crew. 

 As tlie south-west monsoon had set ir'; we had to time our- 



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