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MIGRATION NOTES 
On the upper side it is black, with transverse bars of a vivid 
iridescent bluish green. Each lower wing has three pointed 
tails, very similar to those of certain species of Charaxes butter- 
flies, and there are also three other rudimentary tails edged 
with white down. 
The underside of the under wing near the body is black, 
with metallic green bars, then comes a narrow zone of purple, 
and then a wide zone of golden orange with black spots, and 
then a zone of black with bars of bluish green quite distinct 
from the green near the body. 
The body is a metallic green, with minute black spots on 
each flank of the abdomen. 
The legs are black, with a fulvous down on the thighs. 
MIGRATION NOTES 
By A. Blayney Percival 
February 2, 1916. — During the last few days there has been 
an almost continuous stream of swallows going north. They 
fly low and steadily till about 10 a.m. After this they take 
things more quietly, and may be seen sitting on dead trees and 
telegraph wires or hawking about after insects. 
To-day, sitting near Njoro drift, waiting till it could be made 
passable, a number of European rollers passed overhead, fully 
twenty passing in as many minutes. They were mostly in pairs, 
and, like the swallows, flying due north. 
Wheatears, both the common and isabelline, are plentiful 
and in lovely plumage. 
A few r yellow wagtails are seen now and then at the water 
which escapes from the pipes. 
Asiatic dotterel are in numbers and apparently in full 
summer plumage. 
February 8, 1916. — Near Makindu I saw from the train large 
numbers of European storks. 
