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be admitted on the evidence of the foregoing statement, as 
a race of Cokei , adding, however, that the five skulls presented 
to the Museum by Captain Meinertzhagen show an almost 
complete gradation to skulls of typical Cokei. In view of the 
great attention Mr. Heller has paid to this difficult group, it 
would ill become to say off-hand that all his work is worthless, 
and to accept the view of the hybrid nature of the Nakuru 
hartebeest. The responsibility for its distinction rests, however, 
entirely with him. (From ‘ The Field.’) 
R. L. 
NIGHT SINGING BIRDS. 
In the August number of the Journal, Dr. V. G. L. van 
Someren asks if any members have heard birds singing at 
night, and he mentions having heard Pycnonotus Layardi after 
dark. I have often heard not only that bird, but also one 
very like an English robin. There is also a small bird, with 
a trill almost similar to the lark, which can be heard nearly 
every evening after sunset, high up in the air ; it is not, however, 
a habitant of gardens, but of open country. By the way, is 
not Pycnonotus Layardi the same as 
‘ . . . but in divine 
High-piping Pehlevi, with Wine ! Wine ! Wine ! 
Red Wine ! — the nightingale cries to the Rose 
That yellow cheek of hers to incarnadine/ 
in the sixth stanza of Fitzgerald’s Omar Khayyam ? The 
Portuguese also give it an onomatopoeic name, ‘ dos mille 
quin cent ’ or something very like that. 
H. A. Smallwood. 
A CURIOUS FUNGUS GROWTH 
By C. M. Dobbs 
After the rains have been on for about a month, i.e. towards 
the end of April or beginning of May, I have noticed a peculiar 
fungus growth in this Station (Kericho) in two consecutive years. 
