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Birds. 



Sitagra aliena. 

 Serinus graueri. 

 Cinnyris regius. 

 Zosterops jacksoni. 

 Parus fasciiventris. 

 Dryoscopus holomelas. 

 Bradypterus barakse. 



„ cinnamomeus. 



Apalis personata. 



„ ruwenzorii. 

 Geocichla piaggae. 

 Turdus abyssinicus. 

 Cossyplia arclieri. 

 Alethe poliophrys. 



Turdinus pyrrhopterus. 



„ atriceps. 

 Xenocichla kikuyuensis. 

 Andropadus latirostris. 

 Alseonax pumilus. 

 Tarsiger ruwenzori. 

 Chloropeta kenya. 

 Trochocercus albonotatus. 

 Cryptolopha Iseta. 

 Mesopicus ruwenzori. 

 Gallirex johnstoni. 

 Haplopelia jacksoni. 

 Columba arquati'ix. 

 Francolinus, sp. inc. 



D. The Tkee-Heath- and Moss-Zone (10,000 to 12,500 feet). 



In this zone may be seen perhaps the most weird scenery of all. The trunks and 

 branches of the heath-trees, wrapped in their thick masses of moss, on which grow 

 luxuriant ferns, present all manner of curious and grotesque forms. The trees them- 

 selves are 30 to 40 feet high and lean at all angles, as if weighed down by their burdens 

 of wet moss. Generations of dead ancestors lying across one another upon the ground, 

 and covered over with a soft treacherous layer of moss a foot or more in depth, make 

 the walking both difficult and dangerous. One may easily take a false step into a hole 

 6 or 8 feet in depth between two trunks ; and these fallen trees are not soft rotten wood, 

 but are well preserved and hard as steel, with many dangerous sharp points where the 

 boughs have been broken off. It is truly wonderful how the Bakonjo porters (the 

 tribe inhabiting the lower slopes of the mountain) carry the loads over these slippery 

 tree-trunks, with intervening morasses of black mud 2 or 3 feet in depth, for they never 

 drop a load and get along at a good pace. 



The best idea of the scenery of the moss- and heath-zone is obtained by picturing a 

 wood of large birch-trees, upon which an abnormally heavy fall of snow has descended 

 without a breath of wind to disturb it as it settles, so that it rests in great masses 

 along the trunks and boughs and hangs in curiously-shaped lumps among the more 

 slender branches. The moss on the giant heath looks much like this, but the masses on 

 the trees and stumps are larger ; the moss, too, is of many beautiful shades of colour — 

 green, brown, yellow, pink, sometimes almost white, and many shades of red, all 

 blending together into a perfectly harmonious and warm tint of reddish-brown. The 

 soft beds of moss look comfortable and most inviting to sit upon, but a disappointment 



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