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likewise tlie long feathers of their wings, Uiissct and White, 

 these gather tlicniselves together and breed in those Hands 

 wliich are high, and so farrc alone into the Sea, that the 

 Wilde llogges cannot swimme over them, and there in the 

 ground they have their Burrowes, like Conyes in a Warren, 

 and so brought in the loose Mould, though not so decpe ; 

 which Birds with a light bough in a darke night (as in our 

 Lowbelling) wee caught, I have bcene at the taking of three 

 hundred in an houre, and wee might have laden our Boates. 

 Our men found a prettie way to take them, which was by 

 standing on the Kockes or Sands by the Sea-side, and 

 hollowing, laugiiing, and making the strangest outcry that 

 possibly they could ; with the noyse whereof the Birds would 

 come flocking to that place, and settle upon the very armes 

 and head of him that so cryed, and still creepe nearer and 

 neerer, answering the noyse themselves ; by which our men 

 would weigh them with their hand, and which weighed 

 heaviest they took for the best and let the others alone, and 

 so our men would take twentie dozen in two houres of the 

 chiefest ot them ; and they were a good and well relished Fowle, 

 fat and full as a Partridge. In January wee had great store 

 of their Egges, which are as great as a Hennes Egge, and so 

 fashioned and white shelled and have no difference in yolke 

 nor white from an Hennes Egge. There are thousands of 

 these Birds, and two or three Hands full of their Burrowes, 

 whether at any time (in two houres warning) wee could send 

 our Cockboat, and bring home as many as would serve the 

 whole Company : which Birds for their blindnesse (for they 

 see weakly in the day) and for their cry and vvhooting, wee 

 called the Sea Owle j they will bite cruelly with their crooked 

 Bills." 



V. — On a small Collection of Butterflies made by C. Stuart 

 BettoH in British East Africa. By A. G. BuTLEE; Ph.D. 



The following species were received this year from Mr. Bet- 

 ton, collected at E. Quaso, Masai, in October 1900. 



Nymphalidae. 



1. Melanitis solandra, Fabr. 



2. Neoccenyra Gregorii, Butler. 



3. Precis Gregorii, (J (J ? $ , Butler. 



The female of this species was new to me ; it is interesting 



