With Flashlight and Rifle --* 



peculiarly rapid manner, screaming loudly and clearly all the while. 

 Their nests are mostly placed in baobab-trees. 



140. Poiocephalus masaicus Fschr., Rch\v. . Xayasha Lake, I. 



Musophagidae 



141. Chisaerhis lencogastra Rupp. . Donje Erok, VIII., IX. ; 



Xgaptuk, X. 



The alarum-turaco is well named, the inexperienced traveller 

 being easily deceived by its imitation of a sheep's bleating or dog's 

 barking. Sometimes these birds are rather tame ; generally speak- 

 ing, they are of a distrustful nature. Turacoes have a curiously 

 clever way of slipping through the thorny acacia-scrub without 

 hurting themselves. They perch on the top branches of thorn- 

 bushes just as other birds do on leafy trees, and are there entirely 

 protected against the attacks of birds of prey. I found only 

 green seeds in their stomachs. 



142. Turacus Iiartlanbi \ : Fschr., Rch\v v \ Donje Erok, XIII. 



Cuculidae 



143. Centropus superciliosus, Hempr., Ehr. Merker Lakes, XL; 

 Xjiri, VI.; Moshi, IV. 



The penetrating call of this cuckoo, sometimes heard at night, 

 is one of the characteristic bird-cries of the velt. The nests are 

 disorderly, loose structures, built not very high from the ground, in 

 shrubs ; I found the white eggs in March. 



144. Clamator glandarius (L.). Victoria Nyanza, XI I. 



145. Clamatorjacobinus(&Q&&?}. Yumbe ya Ma\ve, IV. ; Lafitti 

 Mountain, III. ; middle reaches of the Pangani, III. ; Moshi, XII. 



146. Cuculus solitarius, Step. Middle reaches of the Pangani, 

 III. ; Merker Lakes, XL ; Djipe Lake, XII. ; Moshi, XII. 



The call of this cuckoo has three peculiar notes. One hears it 

 frequently at night, and it resembles then the call of an owl. The 

 bird is very shy. 



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