Birds from the White Nile. 397 
after siandown we had either to sit in the smoke of the fire 
or retire under our mosquito-nets. My men got terribly 
bitten, as they had neglected to bring nets with them. Birds 
were scarce, and I saw only those of the same species as I 
had observed near the river. On returning to Fashoda, we 
found that four of our men and two of the crew had been 
locked up by the sergeant^ as they had created a disturbance 
and done a bit of fighting while celebrating the feast of Bairan. 
I met Mr. Loat and Mr. Gunn, F.R.C.S., at Fashoda. The 
former was collecting fishes for the Egyptian Government, 
and had been as far south as Lake No. He had been 
very successful, but was handicapped by being unable to 
procure a sufiicient supply of spirit, as the railway authorities 
were unwilling to take the risk of carrying it. Bain began to 
fall at Fashoda, and the men who had been with us inland 
were attacked by malaria^, due most likely to the raosquito- 
bites, so we started on our return journey on April 3rd. 
On the 5th we camped about 30 miles north of Fashoda, 
and stopped there for ten days to collect. We got several 
buflfalos, and shot a good many lions in that district. On 
the 15th we sailed north and stopped south of Kaka to collect 
till May 7th, but as all our men and most of the crew were 
suff'ering from fever we determined to return to Omdurman. 
The south wind was blowing regularly now, so we made 
good way and collected as we went. The swarms of Ducks 
and most of the Waders had disappeared, and only Gee:=e 
and the regular summer residents remained. We arrived at 
Omdurman on May 26th and found it nearly deserted_, as 
the officials had all moved over to their new quarters in 
Khartum. 
The results of the expedition were satisfactory so far as 
the specimens of the larger mammals went, for we obtained 
the skins of buff'alo, roan antelope, waterbuck, white-eared 
kob, tiang, gazelle, oribi_, and reedbuck, besides killing eight 
lions and a leopard. We got only a few specimens of the 
smaller mammals. In birds I was disappointed, as I expected 
to get many more species ; Doves and Weaver-birds swarmed, 
but other small kinds, especially Larks, were scarce. On 
