With Flashlight and Rifle * 



Anatidae 



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

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

 the lakes in the Masai country. Fully grown young birds 1 

 found in July. 



10. Spatula clypcata (L.). The Masai country, Eastern Xjiri 

 swamps, XII. 



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

 specimens on the Eastern Xjiri swamps. 



11. . -{iias crytJiroHiyncha Gm. Njiri, II., VI. ; Mcrker Lakes, X. 

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



Xjiri swamps in June and July. 



12. Anas punctata Burch. Merkcr Lakes, XI. ; Xjiri, II., VI. 



13. Dendrocygna i'iduata(\^ r Western Xjiri, II. ; Lake Xatron, 

 X. ; Victoria Xyanza, X. 



Comparatively seldom found in the Masai district. 



14. Nettopus auritus (Bodd v . \\'cstern Xjiri, VII. 

 These also I have had few opportunities of observing. 



15. Sarcidiornis melanotus ''Perm.,. Victoria Xyanza, XI. 



1 6. Chcualopex acgyptiacus fL.;. Central Pangani, \\ . Dnncu- 

 junge. 



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

 of all sixes. 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 2/th, 1^99, 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 arc very frequently to be 

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

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



17. Plectropterus gambcnsis 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 vclt in September. Frequently on the Xjiri 

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

 the grass\' plains :///' iisntig. 



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