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pipe I sat down for a short rest upon the huge grey head. The 

 second bull succumbed about half a mile from where I had first 

 fired. It was now well on in the afternoon, and my " skerm " was 

 about six miles away ; so, leaving the animals where they were, I 

 went to the camp, packed up my goods, and came back again. It 

 was then close to sunset, and I had only time to take two quick 

 shots with the camera and make a cut in the stomach and bush the 

 carcass up for the night. I then went to the second bull, cut him 

 open, bushed him up, aud then in the pitch darkness proceeded to 

 make a large skerm, for it was to be permanent for several days at 

 any rate. Next morning the carcasses had swelled up considerably, 

 but I managed to take a few measurements and make some sketches 

 before skinning them. For eleven days I stayed at that skerm, 

 cleaning the bones, drying the skins, and watching the boys, for 

 they had an annoying habit of throwing the smaller bones away ; 

 it may be imagined that, with the quantity of small scraps of meat 

 lying about in the hot sun, in a few days the place had grown — 

 well, unpleasant ! 



I stayed about that country a few days longer, then brought the 

 specimens into Salisbury — not without a very considerable amount 

 of trouble. A few days after that I left Salisbury with the troops 

 for Matabililand, served through the whole of the war, and then in 

 January I came home. The Rhinoceroses preceded me by a few 

 weeks. One of them will be set up in the Natural History 

 Museum at South Kensington ; of the other, the skeleton goes to 

 the Cambridge University Museum, and the skin to the Hon. 

 Walter Eothschild's Museum at Tring. 



4. List of Butterflies collected by Captain J. W. Pringle, 

 R.E., on the March from Teita to Uganda, in British 

 East Africa. By Emily Mary Sharpe \ 



[Received March 20, 1894.] 

 (Plate XIX.) 



The collection of Butterflies described in the present paper 

 was made by Captain Pringle, R.E., during his survey for the 

 projected railway to Uganda on behalf of the Government, under 

 the auspices of the Imperial British East-African Company. The 

 care with which the elevations have been recorded by him renders 

 the collection of especial value to the student of the geographical 

 distribution of Lepidoptera, and it is much to be regretted that 

 such an accurate observer as Captain Pringle was not enabled to 

 make a longer stay in East Africa. 



In this communication I have referred especially to Mr. Kirby's 

 ' Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera,' to Dr. Poland Trimen's work 

 on South-African Butterflies, and to a paper by Mr. Hampson 



1 Communicated by Dr. R. Bowdler Siiakpe, F.Z.S. 



