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Anatidae 



9. Xyroca capcnsis ([Cuv.] Less.) Mcrker Lakes near Mcru 

 Mountain, XI. This beautiful diving-bird is not often found on 

 the lakes in the Masai country. Fully grown young birds I 

 found in July. 



10. Spatula clypeata (L.). The Masai country, Eastern Njiri 

 swamps, XII. 



Of the European shoveller, I have seen and shot only three 

 specimens on the Eastern Njiri swamps. 



1 1. Anas crytJirorJiyncJia Gm. Njiri, 1 1., VI. ; Merker Lakes, X. 

 Fully grown young birds were to be met with frequently on the 



Njiri swamps in June and July. 



12. Anas punctata Burch. Merker Lakes, XL ; Njiri, II., VI. 



13. Dendrocygna viduata (L.). Western Njiri, II. ; Lake Natron, 

 X. ; Victoria Nyanza, X. 



Comparatively seldom found in the Masai district. 



14. Nettopus auritus (Bodd.). Western Njiri, VII. 

 These also I have had few opportunities of observing. 



15. Sarcidiornis melanotus (Perm.). Victoria Nyanza, XI. 



1 6. CJienalopex aegyptiacus (L.). Central Pangani, IV. Dunen- 

 junge. 



To be met with all over the Masai district on lakes and rivers 

 of all sizes. Their warning cries, a sort of quack or gabble, draw 

 attention to them, whether they are up on the drier branches of 

 trees or on the wing. On August 27th, 1899, I found a pair 

 of Egyptian geese near the Pangani River with young ones about 

 a fortnight old. The goose allowed me to get within about fifteen 

 paces of her before she flew away. They are very frequently to be 

 .met with on meadows adjoining the river, and they are not very 

 timid. In the middle of July I came upon unfledged young birds. 



17. Plectropterus gambensis (L.). Pangani River, III. 



Great flocks of them in March 1903, halfway up the Rufu River, 

 near the Lafitti Hills. To the south of Kilimanjaro, on small 

 pools on the velt in September. Frequently on the Njiri 

 swamps. Often fly away out of the swamps in the evening to 

 the grassy plains sur dsnng. 



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