68 Bird Hunting on the White Nile. 



away they only retired to another bush and redoubled 

 the noise. If you tried to creep away they followed you 

 advertising your presence to every other bird, and 

 it was a long time before you could finally shake them 

 off. Then there were four kinds of pigeons that were 

 numerous and would rush out of a tree which you were 

 carefully approaching, with such a flap that all the other 

 birds took alarm, and a thick tree often contained twenty 

 birds or more. In another way we were handicapped by 

 two little birds, the pallid warblerf and the lesser 

 whitethroat.J The majority of the birds in every thick 

 tree or bush were sure to be either pallid warblers or 

 whitethroats. The difficulty was to discover what else 

 the bush contained. Many of the bushes were so thick 

 that it was not until the birds came near the edges that 

 they could be seen. A thorough examination might 

 occupy a quarter of an hour and then perhaps no other 

 birds but these two would be found. A good pair of 

 binoculars is in every way the ornithologist's best friend, 

 and although a glass should not be relied upon to too 

 great an extent in identifying birds, it was of the utmost 

 service in this work. I was the happy possessor of a 

 pair of Goerz's Trieder binoculars. Everyone praises 



f Hypolais pallida (Hempr. etEhr.). J Sylvia curruca (Linn.). 



