4GO THE LAST JOURNAL OF W. A. FORBES. 



feet. Saw Hcdiaetus vocifer and lots of spoor of buffalo, antelope, and 

 leopard quite fresh. The country is an undulating or nearly level grassy 

 plain, with small isolated trees, with thicker bush only along the streams. 

 In many places fine cairns of big boulders of granite or gneiss, the 

 former with very large crystals of felspar and a good deal of hornblende. 

 Many of the rocks obviously waterworn, and the whole valley clearly old 

 valley of river. 



Sept. 8th. Out for a couple of hours, 8 to 10, in morning with gun. 

 Got an Anihus in too bad plumage (moulting) to skin (? Anthus youldi), 

 a female UrobracJiya macroura, and a male Hyphantornis (? atrogularis) 

 with nearly white eyes. Saw a fine adult Helotarsus flying high over- 

 head, the white under wing-surfaces very conspicuous, and the legs 

 apparently behind, short tail. At Abiga's house saw several antelope- 

 skins, two dodoka ('? Hippotragus equinus), mana (? Adenota], kanki 

 (Alcelaphus\ and mazo (Tragelapkus scrijotus), of which latter he had 

 given me the horns. Got a pair of horns of Bos brachyceros, and of 

 Ibis, 1883, what he said was a young kanki, from him, and a skin. Later went out 

 p ' ' shooting up valley. Got very hot and only shot two birds, a Drymoeca 

 (same as that shot on top of Mount Patter), and two young Ploceiue 

 birds of uncertain species. (This is certainly young of Spermestes cucul- 

 lata; I saw several of it next day in company with adults.) A heavy 

 rain and thunder-storm came on just before sunset. 



Sept. 9th. Out shooting early up valley, but only got a male Estrelda 

 rara (one of two) and a Turtur (? semitorquatus), same as seen at Loko. 

 Saw a yellow-bellied Laniarius, a Tchitrea, and some others, including 

 Thamnobia frontalis, a Ruticilla, apparently all young. Picked up a 

 Mus. In afternoon got a few butterflies in lane close to factory, and in 

 fields adjoining some birds, including the Elminia^\ a young Vidua 

 principalis, of which I saw several, two specimens of Drymceca, and 

 Estrelda rufopicta, which occurs here with Estrelda minima, but is rarer, 

 female much redder, and male has pale bluish eye-ring. Abiga brought 

 in a skin of a female Tragelaphus. 



Sept. 10th. Skinned birds in morning. Felt seedy, and about 3 a 

 sharpish attack of fever came on. Piled on a lot of blankets and sweated 

 profusely. Felt better in evening and cooler ; slight headache and pains 

 in leg. 



Sept. llth. In bed, more or less, all day. Felt better, but still weak, 

 with little appetite. A slight recurrence of fever in afternoon. Green- 

 shields went out in morning and shot three birds, a Nectarinia (cupreat), 

 a Lamprocolius (one of a flock), and a Timelia. In evening brought in 

 male and female Urobrachya, a Spermestes cucullata, and one of the thick- 

 billed Drymoeca. 



Sept. 12th. Still feverish, but better. Wet all day. 



Sept. 13th. ' Fulah ' arrived with A. Macintosh, Shit ta, and the 



