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and a peculiar-looking Hypliantornis top of head, back, wings, and tail 

 Ibis, 1883, olive-brown ; lores and part of face black ; very broad eyebrows (tEuplectes 

 melanogaster changing, or a distinct species). Shot a Turtur senegalensis 

 in morning in yard for " chop." 



Oct. 9th. In factory all day, labelling birds &c. till 4, when I went up 

 hill to back of factory. Got a few butterflies, including a nice-looking 

 Erycynid ; but I was awfully tired and dazed ; so came down, and was 

 back by 5.30. Slept well. 



Oct. 10th. Went out shooting with Marina at 6.30 to Egga and back by 

 road along back of hill. Got a Drymceca and a Centropus, and shot also 

 HypTiantornis teootor ( $ , spoilt) and Turtur senegalensis for " chop." 

 Got fearfully dazed by light ; so came back about 8, without having seen 

 any thing new. In evening took a short stroll along track. Got a few 

 Celonias, a Lycus, and a very curious grasshopper, all on grass-stems ; 

 also some Noctuce, flying round the grass-flowers, of two or three species. 



Oct. llth. Went out in the morning on hill behind town to Egga. 

 Shot an Anihus (? campestris J ), and saw a Budytes flava on cleared 

 ground near farm. Further on shot a male Francolinus (? bicalcaratus) 

 on top of a termite-hill : food, dipterous larvae. Got dazy, so returned 

 by 8 ; very tired all day. Skinned birds ; slept and sat in chair. In 

 evening found a remarkable humpy-looking spider, which on being put 

 into spirit dissolved, there being hundreds of young ones, which were 

 closely applied to limbs, thorax, and abdomen of mother, and so carried 

 about. 



Oct. 12th. Slept till about 8, and felt much better. Shot Budytes 

 (which turns out not to be B. raii) just outside factory-door, and saw 

 several more in old disused factory-yard. In evening took a new walk, 

 past landing-place parallel to creek. Got several Lycus, one or two 

 pairs in cop., the male being the form with dilated elytra ; also a few 

 Acrceas &c. 



Oct. 13th. Went out about 6.20 along same path after birds, but got 



very wet in long grass. Shot a Hypergerus and a Timelia (same as that 



Greenshields got at Lukoja), and saw Laniarius barbarus quite close, a 



Merops (? viridissimus\ and a black Cuckoo (nearly certainly Oxylophus 



Ibis, 1883, ater), also Estrelda melpoda and a single Poeocephalus (I think, P. sene- 



P* galensis), and others. Several Budytes in old factory. Very sleepy all 



day, with headache. Good night. 



Oct. 14th. Out shooting about 6.30 ; back again by 8. As weak as 

 a cat, and could hardly carry gun ; got very dazed, but managed to shoot 

 two out of five Merops nubicus in a large tree back of factory, and saw 

 three of a new noisy Timelia. Saw a yellow-billed dull brown Milvus 

 outside factory in morning, apparently same species as the live one at 

 Abutschi. 



S. Oct. loth. Did not go out all day, feeling very lazy and pulled-down. 



