EAST AFRICAN BIIIDS. 921 



MlCROrARRA CAPENSIS Smith. 



I shot a Pigmy Jacana from a flock of three seen on the 

 swamp; its stomach contained insects; ovules large as if the 

 breeding-time is near (Kilosa, 1. vi. 21). 



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RniNOPTiLUS ciNCTUs ciNCTUs Hcugl. 



A native brought me a Three-banded Courser cock which 

 lie snared as it returned to an egg which he had found buried in 

 sand with only the top showing; the egg was well incubated. 

 Heads of soldier-ants were found in the stomach of a female 

 (Zengeragusu, 3. & l.xi. 22). 



BURHINUS CAPENSIS CAPENSIS Licht. 



A young Capo Spotted Stone-Ourlew in down was brought me 

 (Mdjengo's, 24. x. 21). 



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Struthio camelus massaicus Neum. 



As we were making camp a hen ostrich was to be seen some 

 two hundred yards away casually feeding in the stubble of a 

 mealie-field. Later I met it a mile away and carefully stalked it 

 (without a gun). After I got within fifty yarda my self-gratula- 

 tion melted away, and when I was within twenty yards I felt 

 sure the bird had some history. I enquired of an old man at a 

 neighbouring kraal, and he told me that it had been in the neigh- 

 bourhood for a year past, and was supposed to have strayed from 

 a mission at Itigi (twelve miles away) where some had been 

 reared. It lived all alone in the bush and came daily to the 

 shambas to feed or be fed. " It will come if you call it," said he, 

 and picking up an old maize cob from the ground, he held it out 

 and called as one might call chickens, when, sure enough, the bird 

 came running, but halted ten feet away on seeing that the object 

 prodbred was not edible. The old man said it would feed from 

 oiie's hand if matama was held out to it(Mbonoa, 29. ix. 22 j. 



