INDEX 



449 



" Reef-heron," 390, 397 

 Rejaf, 38, 273, 277, 290 

 Repeating-rifle in sport, 206 

 Reticulated giraffe, 89, 205 

 Rhinoceros, black, 282, 410 



white, 5, 290, 409 

 Rhinoptilus chalcopterus, 255 

 Rhodophoneus cruentus, 348 

 Roan antelope, 69, 84, 88, 95, 99, 107, 



130, 132, 282 

 Robin, bush-, 248, 317 



chat, 318 

 Rock- chat, 349 



doves, 124, 360 



partridge, 347, 349, 380 



rabbits, 123, 253 



thrush, 124, 383 

 Rollers, 61, 117, 255, 285 

 Rook, 118 

 Roosevelt, Col., 137, 160, 188, 253, 



414, 420, 426 



Rosy-breasted shrike, 348 

 Rowland Ward, 151, 188, 336, 356 

 Ruffs and reeves, 42, 140, 239, 293, 



315, 39 



Rufous warbler, 304, 348 

 Rumbek, 262 



SABLE ANTELOPE, 9, 98 

 Sacred ibis, 55, 56, 58, 233 

 Saddle-backed lechwi, 5, 93, 137, 149, 



247 

 Saddle-billed jabiru, 112, 226, 139, 



235, 239 



Sahara, Great, I, 20, 24 

 Salt's dikdik, 347, 349 

 Sand-devils, 402 



grouse, 28, 109, 118, 120, 250, 309, 



360, 392, 398, 403 

 larks, 27, 30, 357, 360, 433 

 martins, 254, 304 

 partridge, Cholmley's, 372 

 pipers, common, 239, 293 

 curlew-, 43, 113,293 

 green, 239, 315 

 marsh-, 140, 297, 315 

 wood-, 239 . 



storm, 54 

 Sansevieria, 349, 375 



Sarciophorus tec/us, 324 

 Sarciordornis melanonota, 47 

 Sassaby, 81 

 Savages, 2, 12, 13, 65, 71, 209, 217, 



222, 299, 381 



Saxicola deserti, 293 

 Scavengers, bird-, 140, 327 

 Scent, problems, 99, 240 



sense of, in birds, 240-1 



in mammals, 414 

 Scissor-bills, 140, 251, 254, 262 

 Scopus umbretta, 117, 249 

 Scotornis cli macurus, 118 

 Seagulls, 293, 388, 394, 395, 399 

 Secretary-bird, 205, 231, 232 

 Self-preservation, instinct of, 425 

 Selous, F. C., 1 8, 94, 154, 281, 357, 

 379, 414, 421, 422 



memorial, 421, note 

 Sennar, 312 



Serin-finch, 227, 255, 293, 303, 324 

 Seroot fly, 55, 77, 233, 355, 383 

 Serpentarius secretarius, 231 

 Serpent eagle, 254, 255 

 Serval cat, 280, 283 

 Sessaban trees, 303, 304 

 Settite, 14, 340, 344 

 Shabluka hills, 32 

 Shambe, 262, 408 

 Shamming dead, 426 

 Shark, 387 



Sheep, Barbary, 32, 401 

 Shelducks, ruddy, 42, 48, 262 

 Shilluks, 13, 71, 127, 129, 138, 142, 



1 68, 209, 226 

 Shoveller, 40, 6 1, 315 

 Shrews, elephant-, 251 

 Shrike, bush-, 317 



crimson-breasted, 285, 324 



fiscal, 249, 250, 255 



grey, 30, 348 



helmet-, 124, 227 



Isabelline, 255, 265 



masked, 303 



Nubian, 303 



rosy-breasted, 348 



tchagra, 227, 229 



white-crowned, 293 



woodchat, 255, 317, 324, 348 



