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A SHOOTING INCIDENT 
A SHOOTING INCIDENT 
By H. C. Barnes 
I was out snipe-shooting with a friend, near Nairobi, on 
May 22 last, when a curious incident happened, which might 
interest the readers of the Natural History Journal. My 
friend’s dog pointed a snipe about 50 yards away from me. 
When I got up, the dog flushed the snipe, and caught it in his 
mouth. I told him to drop it, and stooped down to pick it 
up, but it flew off, pursued by the dog. I could not fire for 
fear of killing the latter, and was watching the chase, when I 
heard a rush of wings, and two falcons swooped past me. One 
devoted its attention to the dog by getting between it and 
the snipe. They then soared up, and we could plainly see the 
falcon away up with the snipe in its claws. It was impossible 
to identify the kind of bird with any certainty, but my friend 
said they were Jagga falcons. 
ABNORMAL TIDES 
By Editor 
A report has been received that exceptionally high tides 
were experienced at Yanga in March and April last, on the 
14th and 15th of each month, that of April being the highest. 
The water came over the sea-wall and reached the Customs 
Superintendent’s house, and the path leading from there to 
the main road. 
The water also made its way on to the rice-fields from south 
of the Yanga- Jasin road (part of which was under water as 
far as half a mile away from the township), and by the small 
watercourse which crosses the track from the township to the 
log-bridge over the Umba River. 
The results were disastrous, practically all the rice reached 
by the water being spoilt. This was the more unfortunate, as 
