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L lie bird collecting of this Expedition began at Nairobi /12 1910 to which place the 

 present writer had arrived at noon the same day. A trip, lasting a week, was made to 

 Escarpment station Vi — 14 /i 1911. The 17 /i we started on »safari» and marched without 

 any delay northwards via Juja farm, Blue Post, Punda Melia, Fort Hall, Kagio and Kutu 

 to Embu borna through more or less cultivated, or formerly cultivated country touching 

 the steppe now and then. From Embu borna to Meru borna we continued our march 

 through the lower forest region. At Meru borna we stayed a couple of days 3 % — 2 /2 

 and marched then further north to the acacia-steppe at Luazomela, Itiola, and Lekiundu 

 rivers, tributaries to Guaso Nyiri. At Luazomela we stayed one day, 3 U, at Lekiundu 

 from 5 /a to 10 /2, and marched then to Guaso Nyiri where we camped at the förd on the 

 .Marsabit »road». We crossed the river 13 /2 to the thornbush country on the northern 

 side, marched eastwards and then northwards to a waterplace belonging to the Rendiles, 

 some water holes containing salt water in a dry river bed. This place is called Njoro 1 

 and we arrived there 16 /z. The 28 th of Febr. we left Njoro and went southward to Guaso 

 Nyiri via another waterplace Thera. We then pushed on along the river some way below 

 Chanler Falls and made our last camp at the river 3 /3. We remained there till 16 /a and 

 returned then up along the river of Guaso Nyiri and back to Meru borna arriving there 22 /3. 

 Two days låter we left Meru borna and ascended the slopes of Kenia to the mixed 

 forest- and bamboo-region. We passed along through the forest and came out on the 

 open country not very far from Kutu 28 U and arrived at Fort Hall 30 /3 and to Nairobi k 

 this time going the ordinary road and passing the small rivers Rooruka and Ruiru. 



In consequence of the great distance from Nairobi to the Guaso Nyiri country where 

 I particularly wanted to make observations and collections the marching days became 

 very numerous and the collecting days comparatively few. And everybody who has 

 collected understands, how many diff iculties arise for the preservation of the specimens etc. 

 when one is continually marching from one camp to the other. For zoogeographical rea- 

 sons I wished to have as great a number of species as possible. I tried theref ore to select my 

 specimens as caref ully as possible which took some time, but I think that I have succeeded 

 fairly well in this respect having shot members of 299 species. On the other hand it was 



1 It was also called »Kauroo», or sonicthing like that, and was situated 16 hours from Guaso Nyiri 

 about 1° X. lat. 



