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both birds. Karl says the old hen never leaves the 
young, the cock feeding them all, and that she gets 
quite bare of feathers. The number of young is 
two. The natives, he says, are very fond of them 
to eat, roasted." 
The party next moved forward (February 12th) 
to the Impakwe, a further distance of about six miles. 
" Here," writes the traveller, " is some distinct stone- 
AFRICAN GREY HORNBILL. Tockus Hasutus. 
work forming a circular wall, inside which are remains 
of bricks coated with a substance as if smelting had 
been done here. No mortar has been used, and the 
work is rough and I should say of no great antiquity, 
the stones being small and loose and easily displaced, 
so that I think they would not stand any great 
length of time. They are cut in an oblong form 
and properly placed for building. Karl says it was 
made for smelting copper, and used by the people 
whom Mosilikatze found here. That it is any older 
I should much doubt. Shot here," he concludes, ''a 
beautiful sun-bird, whose beauty awoke my slumber- 
ing love of ornithology." Birds had been scarce of 
