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were only much larger ; but their flefh being 
leaner was lefs delicate. 
My own excurfions alfo proved fuccefsful | 
and I found for my colledion two rare fpecies 
of birds. One of them was the roller, known 
under the name of the Senegal roller ; the 
other the rofe-coloured bee- eater, called the 
Nubian bee- eater* By adding to the denomi- 
nation of thefe birds the name of the country 
where they are found, naturalifts, doubtlefsj 
did not mean to aflert that they exili no where 
elfe ; but it was there probably they were 
firft difcovered, though, like many others 
which bear the names of countries, they may 
be met with in a different part of the globe. 
BuiFaloes were fo common in this diftrid^ 
that they came and fed quietly at a little dif~ 
tance from my camp i but, when we attempted 
to approach them, they betook themfelves to 
flight, and retired to the woods. This fufpi- 
cious and haggard animal carefully avoids dan- 
ger, and it is only when attacked and obliged to 
defend himfelf that he feems to be fenfible of 
the immenfe ftrengtli which nature has be- 
llowed upon him. 
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