ARKIVAL AT FADIBEK. 247 



A sliarp turn to the nortli took us out of the proper road 

 through luxuriant corn-fields and past fine masses of rock, 

 where huge fig-trees and tamarinds were growing, to the 

 village of Uallo, the chief of which wished to submit to our 

 Government, but wanted to see me first. After the necessary 

 details had been discussed, our new ally conducted us to Khor 

 Wodbala, a broad swamp, on the western edge of which we 

 intended to pass the night. While gathering wood, I found 

 in the hollow of a tree, about six feet above the ground, 

 three fully feathered fledglings of the Dacelo cheUcictensis, with 

 striped heads, white collars, the lower part of their beaks and 

 outer feathers of their pinions being blue. Hence it is quite 

 certain that this bird builds its nest in hollow trees, or at least 

 can do so occasionally, a fact quite in accordance with its 

 habits. Hilly country stretches from the khor towards Jebel 

 Lalak as far as a deep ravine, which separates it from the 

 corn-fields lying at the foot of that mountain. Quantities of 

 bamboo and Anona were growing along this road. We ought 

 to have been able to get porters at the village of Jangbi, but 

 failing to do so, we went on through high grass and rushes 

 until we reached the fields of Fadibek, and striking across the 

 hills that radiate from Jebel Latjiet, and on rocky parts of 

 which were some fine Maya-trees, we descended the hill, and 

 after passing Chief Aguok's village, we reached the station of 

 Fadibek just in time to escape a downpour of rain. 



I gave some information about Fadibek on the occasion of 

 my last year's expedition ; I have therefore only to add that 

 the station has prospered, and still remains the centre for 

 the eastern Shuli district. The continual rain made outdoor 

 work disagreeable, but I had one good ornithological find in 

 the graceful Ptilopachys ventralis, whose sharp cry at coupling 

 time is heard from the crags in the Shuli country. It is the 

 best game found here. I also found a large spider, a new 

 species. 



Our route from Fadibek to Fajuli should have taken us 

 first "to Jebel Abayo, in the district of Labongo, which we 

 visited last year, and then we were to leave the Fatiko road on 

 the right. But the path proved to be rather different from 

 that followed last year, for it led across the Abanya hill, and 



