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They do not appear to perch on trees at all. All the hornbills (I have 

 now four species) are marvellously insectivorous, and even the barbets 

 (Pogoniorhyncus) of which I have I think, three species, are the same. 



I find there is a well marked intermediate fauna on the slopes of 

 the hills, consisting of birds found neither here on the highlands nor 

 on the plains about Zoulla. So I have sent one of my skinners to 

 Undul to collect. Sturt of the Land Transport Train, a very fair 

 ornithologist, has promised to take care of him and shoot birds. 

 Amongst other things, there are two woodpeckers there, of each of 

 which I have a single specimen only, and many other birds. There 

 are several of which I did not secure specimens at all : however, I hope 

 to get them. I am not sure if any mammals are peculiar. There is a 

 jackal-like beast which I have not seen elsewhere, but it may occur on 

 the table-land. 



15th. Since I began this, I find that the traps are far more exten- 

 sively developed around this than I at first thought. There are a lot 

 of trachytes, so exactly resembling sandstone, that I had marked them 

 as such : I now find that they are clearly unconformable upon them. 

 I have scarcely ever seen a greater sell. Some of the volcanic rocks, 

 when slightly decomposed especially, cannot be distinguished even 

 under a lens from fine argillaceous sandstone, and I doubt if I should 

 ever have made out their real nature, had not some of them been so 

 very columnar that their trappean nature was evident. In one hill 

 near this, there are some of the finest columns I ever saw ; 200 or 300 

 feet long and as regular as possible. 



You will perhaps have heard that Beavan has been very ill and 

 prevented from coming out. A Mr. Jesse is appointed in his place 

 and is now I believe in Zoulla. A second man, (Danford or some such 

 name) is with him, and I understand they are hard at work. Zoulla is 

 far better now, I suspect, than when I was there, for the heavy rain 

 has made the whole place green and many birds and other animals, 

 elephants amongst others, have gone down towards the coast. I 

 have not seen an elephant yet. The biggest wild animal I have 

 come across has been Koodoo. I saw three different bucks yesterday 

 and a herd of does, but could not bag one. The species I believe is 

 different from that of the Gape, but the buck is a noble animal, as 

 Jarge as a buck samblmr. The does are very like cow Nylgai, except 



