With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



176. Halcyon semiaenileus Jiyacinthinus^ Rch\v. Korongo, III. 

 A kingfisher startled by myself one evening at the end of 



October, returned continually to a candelabra euphorbia-tree, but 

 I could not discover its nest. 



177. Ispidina picta (Bodd.;. Moshi, IV. 



Meropidae 



178. Melittophagus mcridionalis, Sharpe. Njiri, \'. \'III.; 

 Donje Erok, VIII. 



179. M elittopJiagus cyanostictus (Cab.j. Ngaptuk, I. ; GeleT 

 Volcano table-land, X. ; Moshi, IV. 



180. Melittophagus bullockoides (A. Sm.). Kiraragua, XI.; 

 Nakuro Lake, I. 



181. M crops albicollis (Vieill.; Djipe Lake, XII. 



182. JMerops persicus Pall. Masai-land. 

 Bee-eaters very common. 



Upupidae 



1 83. Upupa africana, Bchst. Middle reaches of the Pangani, III. 



184. Irrisor senegalensis somaliensis, Grant. Xjiri, \'I. ; 

 Matiom, XI. 



185. Rhinopomastus cabanisi (Krl.). Xgaptuk, X. ; Kitumbin 

 Volcano, IX. 



The tree-hoopoes are very shy birds. The mocking-hoopoes 

 cling to the bark of large trees like woodpeckers. I have observed 

 them hanging head downward. These birds have a strange shrill 

 call and keep bowing their heads in a very peculiar way. 



Caprimulgidae 



1 86. Capriinulgus fru'iiatns, Salvad. Xorth-west Kilimanjaro, 

 VIII. 



187. Crtpi'iuiiilgns fossci ' (\'crr.; Ilartl. Donje l^rok, \ III. 



I found these nightjars breeding during March. Rising on 

 their wings they utter a very low, hardly perceptible, call. Xot 

 quite full\- fledged young ones were discovered by me in Xovember, 

 near the Mcru Mountain. 



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