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such a bird cannot be expected to remain rare long, and 

 this year, near Shendy, the Hon. N. Charles Eothschild 

 and Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston found this goatsucker fairly 

 common, and brought horn some fifteen specimens. 



The fate of the bat that led to the finding of the goat- 

 sucker must be told. In the morning I searched care- 

 fully and found it. Strangely enough it was of much 

 the same colour as the goatsucker, and on bringing it 

 home Mr. W. E. de Winton pronounced it a new species. 

 Captain Stanley S. Flower, however, afterwards brought 

 home a similar specimen which he had obtained 

 two months before I shot mine, and some 200 miles 

 further to the south. Capt. Flower's specimen therefore 

 rightly took precedence, and the bat has been named 

 Glauconycteris Floweri. 



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I often dream of a broad river flowing through a desert 

 land lit by the bright moon ; of a ghost-like form and 

 a chance shot; then I see a stately Arab bearing a 

 lantern, and suddenly the light flashes upon a glorious 

 bird shining like burnished gold all spread out upon 

 the sand. 



