With Flashlight and Rifle -*> 



I found thicknces mating and breeding on the Rufu River at 

 the end of February. Towards evening they flew over the waters, 

 giving out their clear, recurring notes. 



Dromadidae 



31. Dnn/iiis ardcola Payk . Sadani, Bagamoyo, the Coast, 

 IV., VI. 



I often found drab-plover together with different kinds of herons 

 on the coast. 



Scolopacidae 



32. Recurvirostra avocetta, L. Xjiri, V., VI. ; younger ones on 

 the Mcrker Lakes, XI. 



Avocets, now rarely seen breeding on the German seaboard, 

 I found nesting in large numbers in June 1903 on the Western 

 Xjiri marshes. I found them also often on the salt and alkaline 

 swamps all round. Their movements are very curious and interesting 

 when their nests or young arc in danger. They fly hither and 

 thither with incessant clear cries, now plunging into the shallow 

 water, now bending down over the surface and darting from one 

 island of reeds to another ; then going out into the deeper water, 

 then rising again into the air. The way their legs hang down is 

 very peculiar. 



33. Iliinaiitopits Jiimantopus fL.). Vumbc ya Mawe, IV. ; 

 Merker Lakes, XL 



The black-winged stilt I had many opportunities of watching. 

 I saw three specimens in July on the coast between Bagamoyo 

 and Pangani. I saw numbers in October on the Xatron Lake and 

 Victoria Xyan/ca, in November on the Merker Lakes, and in January 

 on Xakura Lake and on the Klmcntaita and Xayasha Lakes. 



34. Pavoncella pugna.v (\*.~}. .Merker Lakes, XI. 



35. Totanus littorens fL.). Vumbc ya Mawe, IX.; Xguaso 

 Xyiro, X. 



36. Totiinns ochropiis 'L.}. I'pper Pangani, V. ; Merker Lakes, 

 XI. 



37. Totanus glareola L/;. The Masai country. 



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