160 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



His expedition seems to have been planned chiefly with the 

 object of determining the question of botanical areas around the 

 shores of the Victoria Nyanza, Lake Tanganyka, and other parts 

 of Equatorial Africa. Starting from Mombasa, he journeyed 

 north-west to the head of the Victoria Nyanza, passing along 

 the northern shore of that lake, and round its north-west end to 

 Kitangule, then across the north-eastern extremity of the Albert 

 Edward Nyanza to Mt. Euwenzori, which lies between that lake 

 and the more northern Albert Nyanza. After completing the 

 exploration of that mountain, he turned southward to the head 

 of Lake Tanganyka, and proceeding then by water, traversed the 

 entire length of that lake and Lake Nyassa, when, crossing the 

 Shire highlands and the Zambesi valley, he found himself once 

 more at the sea at Chindi, some 1300 miles south of Mombasa. 

 As the zoological results of this expedition have been already 

 briefly made known to our readers (Zool. 1895, pp. 154, 238), we 

 need not do more than call attention to the publication of the 

 present volume, in which more detailed information may now be 

 found. 



It may be observed that both the Sunbirds mentioned at 

 pp. 98, 99, were originally described from Kilmanjaro ; and Nee 

 tarinia johnstoni was found by Mr. Gregory on Mount Kenia 

 (cf. 'Ibis,' 189G, p. 290). 



We learn from the Appendix (p. 387) that the collection 

 of mammals obtained by the author has been entrusted for 

 determination to Mr. Oldfield Thomas, of the Natural History 

 Museum, and it is not unlikely that some of them may prove to 

 be new and undescribed. 



Dr. Giinther has already described several new Reptiles and 

 Batrachians collected on this expedition (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 June, 1895), and in a list of more than one hundred different 

 species of insects enumerated by Dr. A. G. Butler (Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1895) about a dozen are stated to be new. 



It is to botanical science, however, that Mr. Scott Elliott, as 

 on former explorations in Africa, has made the most valuable 

 contributions, and his book, therefore, appeals more directly to 

 botanists. Nevertheless zoologists will find in its pages a good 

 deal of information illustrative of the fauna of a most interesting 

 and still little-known region of Central Africa. 



