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NATURAL HISTORY NOTES 
I have photographs, I saw when he was about six months old, 
in 1908 at Karuri’s village. This child was again seen by me 
some three years afterwards. 
In Kutu’s country near the Ziba, in 1906, I saw an Albino 
lad about ten years old. 
All these suffered from exposure to the sun’s actinic rays 
more than a European would, owing to the total absence of 
pigment in the tissues, and the inability to produce a protective 
pigmentation in the skin of exposed parts, such as takes place 
in normal persons whether white or coloured. 
These poor people were all suffering from sores and scabs 
on exposed surfaces. As far as I remember, in each case the 
hair was a very pale straw colour, and not dead white as is 
usually seen in European Albinos. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES FROM BRITISH 
EAST AFRICA 
By A. Lovekidge 
May 24. — Spent the day at Kabete. The most interesting 
capture was a bat, which was hanging head downwards 
from an old pigeon’s nest, situated in a eucalyptus tree about 
forty feet from the ground. As the tree was too slender 
I swarmed up an adjacent one, which I expected to bend over 
every minute with my weight. I carried my net over my 
head and easily reached across and bagged the animal, but 
it bit and tore a large hole in my net. I chloroformed the 
creature on reaching home, and it measured 22 inches from 
wing to wing. 
.Some of the nests I found were as follows : African pied 
wagtail ( Motacilla vidua) sitting on three olive-green eggs in 
a bush overhanging a waterfall. This bird is very like the 
English pied, but the situation and eggs are very different. 
Reichenow’s weaver (Helerhy'pantes reichenowi) sitting on three 
eggs, nest in hedge. I was attracted to this nest by the cries 
of the birds as I was cycling past. The cause of the commotion 
was a lark-heeled cuckoo ( Centro'pus swperciliosus), which was 
