-*> To Kilimanjaro with Prince Lowenstein 



days out of the shell with locusts, the slightly bigger 

 ones found their nourishment in ripe grass-seeds. 



The weaver-bird which I myself discovered in 1899 

 {Ploceus schillings?} was now mating ; and the prince 

 collected a number of specimens of this handsome bird, of 

 which the males when old are coloured a beautifully 

 gleaming gold, and which always builds its nest right 

 over the water, either in bushes or among reeds. 



A female ostrich which I shot, and of which I pre- 

 sented the contents of the stomach to the Berlin Museum, 

 had been eating nothing but grass-seed in enormous 

 quantities and had produced an egg out of season. 

 But for this one egg the ovaries were completely 

 inactive. The natives told me that when the grass 

 grows so suddenly ostriches lay single eggs not in- 

 frequently, out of the breeding-season, when straying on 

 the velt. 



We moved our camp down-stream for some days, and, 

 while Prince Lowenstein had the good luck to bring 

 down a fine rhinoceros running close to me, we suddenly 

 came upon a herd of buffaloes out in the open on the 

 same day more than sixty of them enjoying their siesta 

 in the shade of some acacia-trees, side by side with 

 water-buck {Cobus aff. ellipsiprymnus] and Grant's gazelles 

 (Gazella granti}. 



Most unfortunately I did not succeed in photographing 

 them, either standing still or running ; I had not got 

 my apparatus yet into complete working order, and the 

 light, moreover, was unfavourable. 



Out of this herd the prince and I shot one bull and 



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