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punctata . This one commenced by putting a strip of mud 
in the angle between the shelf and the side and rounding the 
corner off nicely. I might add that she has never been 
back to the nest since that day, though not molested in 
any way. 
Cycling in to Nairobi, I picked up the slightly injured re- 
mains of a blind burrowing snake (Glauconia eminii) , which I was 
delighted to get, as it was a representative of the only family 
found in the Protectorate, and not represented in the Museum 
collection. Kell’s also gave me a species new to the collection 
yesterday — a little olive snake with a jet black head known 
as Aparallactus Jacksoni, and first discovered on Kilimanjaro ; 
it must be pretty rare, I think. There are some crowned 
hornbills ( Buceros cristatus) in an adjoining garden to where 
I reside, and each morning the flock passes over to the forest 
with loud cries. They are handsome black-and-white birds, 
with enormous beak development, and my neighbour shot 
three with a rifle for the Museum ; they were beautifully killed, 
with scarcely any blood, and made up into very nice skins. 
May 15, 1915. — A local resident cycled with me to Ngona 
Forest, where he has collected some magnificent swallow-tail 
and other butterflies. The forest is about twenty miles in 
length, and varies from one to two miles in width. Leopards 
are said to be quite common there still, and a fellow-boarder 
at my place saw two lions there together, and a third later in 
one day ; this was four years ago, however, and they have 
doubtless retired to the denser parts of the forest. The weather 
was dull, but close and steamy, and though we got nothing of 
especial note, we enjoyed the outing very much. The forest 
was very lovely, and along the middle of it flows a river in a 
very deep ravine. On the roadside I caught a live Glauconia 
eminii , about nine inches in length and scarcely thicker than 
the lead in a pencil ; it makes an uninteresting pet, as it burrows 
into the soil, and only once have I seen it out in the sun, when 
it was twisting about in the branches, They are very difficult 
to hold, as they flow about like quicksilver. 
May 21, 1915. — Just near my rooms I found a Reichenow’s 
weaver bird nesting, and a second building ; the bird is a vivid 
yellow, with some black about the head and wings. Scores 
