On Birds from the White Nile. 393 
XXVI. — On a Collection of Birds made on the White Nile 
betiveen Khartum and Fashoda. By W. R. Ogilvie- 
Grant. With an Introduction and Field-notes by R. MPD. 
Hawker. 
(Plates X. & XI.) 
I. Short Narrative of the Journey, by R. M*^D. Hawker. 
With the object of collecting Natural History specimens, I 
left England at the end o£ December 1900, my intention 
being to go up the White Nile as far as its junction with 
the Sobatj and after travelling thence, in a south-easterly 
direction through the Nuer country to Lake Rudolf, to 
return home via Mombasa. 
The Director of the Natural History Museum and 
Mr. Ogilvie-Grant provided me with letters of introduction to 
the officials in the Sudan, requesting them to give me every 
help to further my expedition, and I engaged the services of 
two taxidermists, Messrs. C. F. Camburn and J. R. Thurston. 
Arriving at Port Said on January 1st, 1901, I proceeded 
to Cairo and called on Sir Rennell Rodd, who, on the pro- 
duction o£ my letters from the Natural History Museum, 
arranged with the Financial Secretary to have my heavy 
baggage passed unopened through the Customs. I also 
called on Lord Cromer, who kindly gave me a letter to the 
Sirdar^ Sir Reginald Wingate, at Khartum. 
On January 9th I was joined by my companion, Mr. G. 
H. Cheetham ; on the llth our baggage arrived at Cairo, 
and thanks to Dr. Keatinge, of the Cairo School of Medicine, 
was re-trucked at once for Chellal. Colonel Gordon, R.E., 
had kindly arranged with the Sudan Railway to have the 
baggage transported as soon as possible, so we left Cairo on 
the 1 2th with the hope that it would arrive at Khartum 
soon after us. It did not, however, reach that place till 
January 27th, and we had the mortification of seeing several 
shooting-parties, which arrived after us, starting up the 
White Nile sooner. 
I called on the Sirdar and presented Lord Cromer's letter. 
The Sirdar informed me that we should be helped in every 
