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Turlur, &c. Lois of butterflies. Saw a black-and-white Motacilla and 

 a yellow-wattled and legged Lobivanellus (senegalensis ?). Macintosh got 

 for me a Cercopithecus alive from factory, quite young, with long fur, 

 fleshy face, smutty nose, tipped ears, and a black facial ring (? Cerco- 

 pithecus nisnas). They also had a Cercopithecus sabceus and a Cynoce- 

 phalus, apparently Cynocephalus sphinx, both young. Lots of Pluvianus. 

 Got photos of nests of Hyphantornis textor in town. Returned quickly 

 to Lukoja, and before dark went on shore and shot a Waxbill, apparently 

 Rhodopyga rhodopsis, not at all rare in town. Pluvianus on beach walk- 

 ing about or flying over water in numbers. 



Aug. 28th. Went on shore early to hills behind town and got a lot 

 of birds amongst small bushy trees, a Picus, Chrysococcyx, Turlur sene- 

 galensis (in town and compound), Estrelda melpoda, E. minima ?, E. 

 nigricollis, two species of Nectarinia, a Hintndo, and two or three others. 

 Saw also Scopus, Euplectes franciscanus, E. flammiceps, Urobrachya 

 macroura, in grassy hills &c outside town. Hill volcanic, quartzite- or 

 felsite-looking, or metamorphic, cleared, with grass. Got a bright 

 yellow-red antelope-skin from Macintosh. The commonest birds in 

 town of Lukoja are Passer simplex, Neophron, Spermestes cucullata, 

 Ifypochera, and Estrelda senegala or minima. After breakfast again on 

 shore and saw a beautiful red-black Nectarinia singing quite sweetly in ibi s , 1883, 

 a gingeri-tree, which has an agreeable drupaceous fruit. In old factory P- 09< 

 Spermestes cucullata is very common ; a nest I found was built on 

 ground, of grass, lined with feathers, contained a pure white egg and 

 three newly-hatched down-covered young. The red- and green-headed 

 lizards both common round houses. Hyphantornis textor in great swarms 

 in trees of town, the Spermestes also nesting in a mango in the compound 

 of factory, where the Turtur was also walking about quite tame. Got 

 away about 1 and went up the Binue, passing a large town on right as 

 you enter the Binue, called Gandi, with the tableland behind and to left 

 of us. Wooded banks on both sides. 



Aug. 29th. Steaming up, the Binue running very rapidly against us, 

 with lots of Pistia and floating drift-grass. This river rises a little 

 earlier, even more rapidly, than the Niger ; only navigable by steamer 

 for about three mouths ; for the rest of the year very low and full of 

 snags and sand-banks. The French have factories at Lukoja and Loko. 

 The banks generally low and wooded ; saw some high land in distance 

 to left in morning, and earlier passed an isolated rising facing river by 

 a steep bluff, apparently due to a thick, slightly inclined (dip?) basalt 

 bed, overlying a compact yellow sandstone. Saw several Plectropterus 

 (nearly certain gambensis, but ? head), and five or six Hornbills, appa- 

 rently Buceros buccinator, with white wings and tail. "Arthur "down 

 with fever, temperature 103 0> 8 ; mine, Greenshields's, and a boy's about 

 99-6. Only passed two towns on left hand (or bank), Rumasha and 



