474 THE LAST JOURNAL OF W. A. FORBES. 



Dec. 8th. Got one big and two small Polypteri, two of the black Osteo- 

 glossum, and two of a new fish with no ventrals, small pointed dorsal, 

 and very long anal fins. People brought in with other hides a skin of 

 Hippotragus equinus from Potashi, a town about half-a-day's steaming 

 from Bussah. Got a large, small-scaled, carp-like fish, of a new species, 

 in evening from Bishop. Went down creek in afternoon, as far as bush 

 at fork. Got a Xerus and three birds female of Platystira melanoptera, 

 Hyper gems (several seen ; its note a harsh one, repeated several times), 

 and a new Drymoeca-like form. Saw and wounded a large grey monkey, 

 apparently Cercocebus albigena or G. fuliginosus, also a Nycticorax ; but 

 both escaped. 



Ibis, 1883, Dec. 9th. Got three Polypteri and two other fishes, the silvery Clupeoid 

 p> ' and the Scaroid, which superficially exactly resemble one another, differ- 

 ing in teeth, form of head, anal fin, and coloration of ventrals. In even- 

 ing went down creek, but got little, only an Epomophorus and an Estrelda 

 rubropicta, both damaged. 



Dec. 10th. Down to palm-groves &c. and got five birds, two being 

 new, a small Barbatula (iris brown, with bright orange-yellow frontal 

 spot, light yellow-sulphury uropygium, and citron-yellow edgings to 

 lesser wing-coverts ; greater coverts and most proximal remiges bordered 

 with white ; crown, nape, and neck flammulated with white) and a small 

 Drymceca. All flocks of Euplectes and of Ploceus, sp. inc., are now in 

 full winter plumage. Lots of Pratincola about. In evening went down 

 creek ; got a female Ploceus brachypterus and male Macrodipteryx. Saw 

 also the male of the Tchitrea I had previously got female of ; it is white, 

 with glossy crested head and two long rectrices. Saw also some females of 

 it, Laniarius, &c. 



Dec. llth. Down to usual shooting-grounds in morning. Got two 

 females and one male of Ploceus brachypterus and a small Drymceca. Saw a 

 single Scopus (flight light, easy sailing, with no heavy flapping as in Herons), 

 and wounded or killed, but could not find, what was apparently an Indi- 

 cator. In evening, down creek, got the male Tchitrea ; also a Scotornis 

 climacurus on way back. Bather feverish again. 



Dec. 12th. Did not go out in morning, but took a " thoke." Filled a 

 tin full of specimens. In evening down creek. Saw a Scopus, and shot 

 one of the large species of Centropus. Stores from Egga arrived. Got a 

 few fishes, including two specimens of a new barbel-like fish with a red 

 spot on tips of scales. 



Dec. 13th. Got about eighteen fishes in morning, of six or seven 



species, including one new one, a barbel-like form with very large scales. 



Did not shoot in morning. Got a young Ibis cethiopicus in evening in 



rice-fields opposite factory, one of a number ; these birds have appeared 



quite commonly during the last few days. Saw several Scopus in 



Ibis, 1883, company with these Ibises and Cow-birds ; and there were also a fine 



p. 533. 



