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Black Duck — Anas Sjyarsa. Differs from the last (though it 

 "quacks" like a Mallard) in being of solitary habit, and 

 in frequenting only hill-burns and wooded streams. A 

 drake shot weighed 3 lb?., bill blue with black patches, 

 feet orange with dark webs. \¥hite spots on scapulars ; 

 speculum purple. 



Pintail-i^«^/a acitta. \ ^^^^^^ European species are all 



Shoveler->S2M^./ia chjpcata. r ^^^^^,1,^^ j^ ..i^ter. 



Garganey — Querqucdula circiaJ 



Hottentot Teal — Ncttmm pundahim. Common on Naivasha, 

 Elmenteita and Nakuru ; but only found on the hracJcish 

 salt-lakes. 



Common Pochard — Kyroca ferina. 



South African Pochard^i\^. africana. 



Both these are found on the lakes, the latter especially 

 common on Naivasha. 



South-African Stiff-tailed Duck — Erismatiira maccoa. I recog- 

 nised this singular duck at once on Lake Elmenteita by 

 its obvious similitude to the White-faced Duck {E. kuco- 

 ce2)hala) of Southern Spain. Both are long, low, heavily- 

 immersed diving-ducks; both have the short wing and 

 sheeny plumage of a Grebe, and the long stiff' tail of a 

 Cormorant, which both carry at intervals bolt upright — as 

 it were like a "jigger-mast." 



I imagine, though I did not see the present species at 

 its bieedino^-time, that it also will then have the bill 

 swollen and dilated above. 



Flamingoes 



Flamingo — P?icenicoptenis roseus. Frequents Lake Nakuru in 

 great flocks; also observed, though in lesser numbers, on 

 Elmenteita and Solai. Lake Hannington, however, ap- 

 pears to be their great rendezvous. In the course of 

 ages, they have so defiled the shallows and foreshores as 

 to render the neighbourhood of that lake intolerable to 

 white men. 



Lesser Flamingo — Fli. minor. Observed in small numbers on 

 Nakuru. Plentiful elsewhere. 



