With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



Thence to Massongoleni and a little further this bird \vas so 

 frequently found that I could count twenty-five males to whose 

 warbling I had listened. This warbling resembles that of a weak- 

 voiced nightingale, or a nightingale with its notes not yet fully 

 developed, but the tune seemed to me in a lower key and more 

 that of the bastard-nightingale. In March 1905 I heard these 

 nightingales on the Rufu River ; they were very numerous near 

 the caravan-road between the Jipe Lake and the camp at Kiziwani 

 (Kisuani). In this district, which would suit the European night- 

 ingale well, I heard a great number of singing male birds. I also 

 found the same species near the Meru Mountain and Mto Xyuki. 



fi illicit bv Hindi, ll'alsiin i5~- l*tiuy, Lit., l.undnn and Ayltsuury. 

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