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NESTING OF SOME E. AFRICAN BIRDS 
of the skin rather similar to what is seen on cattle after a 
recovery from coccidiosis. The beast had been killed adjacent 
to a high bank near a river, and it appeared that the first 
lion had jumped on to the withers of the giraffe from the top 
of the bank while others had grappled with the prey anywhere : 
one cut on the giraffe extended from the hock to the fetlock 
and consisted of two parallel rips evidently caused by the hind 
claws of a lion who had seized the flank of its prey and was 
scrambling for foothold. The bites and cuts on the flank 
bore out this idea. 
NESTING OF SOME E. AFRICAN BIRDS 
From Journal, British Ornithologists’ Club 
The following is an extract from the proceedings of a 
meeting held in London by the British Ornithologists’ Club, 
and the notes which follow, of a few nests found by me in 
British East Africa in 1911, are copied direct from the Journal 
of the Club : 
Mr. Jourdain exhibited the eggs of two species of Sunbirds — 
Cinnyris falkensteini, Fisch and Reich., and C. mediocris, Shelley. 
The eggs of the former were described in the 2nd edition of 
Nehrkorn’s ‘ Katalog,’ p. 275, but those of C. mediocris were 
believed to be undescribed. They were obtained together 
with the nests and parent birds, skins of which were exhibited, 
at Njoro, British East Africa, in October and December 1911 
by Mr. W. M. Congreve. Of C. mediocris three nests were 
found in bushes and among the slender boughs of young trees 
from six to ten feet from the ground. Each nest contained two 
eggs. The first on October 22 (much incubated), the second 
on October 24 (slightly incubated), and the third on 
December 29 (fresh). 
The nests were slightly spherical in shape, with the opening 
near the top, but domed, about 4| inches in height and 8 to 8J 
inches in breadth. 
