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INDEX 



Geese, diving power of (temporary), 49 



Genets, 253 



Geographical distribution of birds, 



in, 113 

 Geographical distribution of mammals, 



9, 10, 344, 345 

 Giant eland, 5, 290, 405 



forest-hog, 290 



Giraffe, 84, 85, 89, 92, 99, 101, 142, 

 1 80, 231, 282, 322, 405, 408 



reticulated, 89, 205 

 Glaucidium perlatum^ 324 

 " Globe-spanners," 1 1 r, 390 

 Glossy starling, 30, 117, 124, 320, 328 

 Gnu, brindled, 9, 424 

 God wits, 42, 112, 140, 239, 315 

 Goliath heron, 52, 1 12, 1 14, 139, 262, 392 

 Gondokoro, 273, 278 

 Goose, comb-, 47, 114, 138 



Egyptian, 42, 44, 46, 48 



spur- winged, 42, 46, 47, 138 

 Gordon, a memento of, 308 

 Goshawk (Melierax), 108, 114, 121, 



3i3 3 321 



Grant Allen, 411 



Grass-fires, 17, 120, 142, 173, 210, 218 

 Gray, Dr, 160 

 Great spotted cuckoo, 384 

 Grebes, 253 

 Green bittern, 397, 398 



sandpiper, 315 

 Greenshank, 43, 122, 115, 239, 293, 



297, 315 



lesser, 140 



Grey hornbill, 124, 285 

 Griffon, white-backed, 325 

 Grivet monkey, 76, 319, 321 

 Ground-squirrel, 253, 323 

 Guinea-fowl, 62, 70, 124, 317 

 Guinea-pigeons, 109 

 Gull, black-headed, 293, 388 



Hemprich's, 388, 398 



lesser black-backed, 293, 388 



marsh-, 43, 293 



white-eyed, 388, 389, 395, 399 

 Giinther, Dr, 162 

 Gyps africanus, 325 



"fulvescens" 369 



oc dpi tails ^ 325 



HADENDOWA Arabs, 14, 310, 354, 371, 



373 



Halcyon chelicutensis, 318 

 Haliaetus vocifer, 327, 376 

 Hammer-head, 117, 239, 249 

 Hamram Arabs, 14 

 Hares, 27, 63, 70, 103, 323, 381, 403 

 Harpooning hippopotamus, 198, 210 

 Harrier, desert-, 434 



marsh-, 62, 116, 121 



pallid, 140, 293, 360, 434 

 Harrier-eagle, 325, 326 

 Hartebeest, Jackson's, 69, Si, 82, 93, 

 248, 282, 406 



korrigum, 32, 8 1 



Nakuru, 94 



Neumann's, 94, 249, 282 



of Sudan, 93 



S wayne's, 94 



Tora, 82, 94, 329 

 Hawk, black sparrow-, 63 



red-eyed sparrow-, 383 



eagle, crested, 292, 293, 326 

 Hawk-moths, 19 



Health and climate, 15, 37, 256, 353 

 Hedgehog, 115, 253 

 Helmet-shrikes, 124 

 Helotarsus ecaudatus, 329, 376 

 Hemiramphus, 393 

 Hemp-aloes, 375 

 Herodias alda, 60, 115 



brachyrhynchus, 60 



garzetta, 60 

 Heron, black-headed, 58, 70, 115, 245 



buff-backed, 58, 239 



Goliath, 52, 112, 114, 139, 262, 392 



grey, 139, 432 



night-, 58, 63, 64, 246, 266, 269 



purple, 58, 117, 429 



reef-, 390, 392, 397 



squacco, 58, 64, 114, 233, 429 



white, 60, 115 



Heuglin, von, 97, 160, 342, 396, 398 

 Hippopotamus, 57, 72, 136, 179, 193, 

 210, 256, 261, 262 



spending day on land, 200, 202, 256 



strikes ship, 72, 193 



sub-aquatic grunts of, 204 

 Hippotragus eguinus, 95 



