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SOME NOTES ON SPIDEES 
mostly siluroids, and often running up to 80 lbs. in weight. 
From the photographs shown the numbers of the fish were 
incredible ; no water could be seen from bank to bank, nothing 
but millions of fish packed as close as could be, but all alive ; 
there were more fish than water. In some pools the crocodiles 
appear to have collected, and half a dozen of these saurians 
could be seen lying packed in a pool not more than 15 feet 
across. Just before the traveller left the swamp the river was 
beginning to rise, rain having evidently fallen at the head- 
waters of the river. 
There were hundreds of Somalis with large herds of cattle 
at the Lorian and their stock was evidently suffering from 
some disease ; for there were twenty-five to thirty carcasses 
outside each kraal. 
The crocodiles on the Lower Euaso Nyiro are very dangerous 
to man ; the average size is not exceptionally great — 10 to 
12 feet — one being shot 10 feet in length. 
A small bird of extraordinary tameness was met with, but 
unfortunately not collected ; it is entirely black and a little 
smaller than a starling ; it was first noticed owing to its settling 
on the rifle carried by one of the traveller’s gun-bearers, and 
later on another one settled on the rifle on his shoulder and on 
his hand. They did not seem to be common, only three or four 
being seen. Possibly some of our ornithological members may 
be able to identify it, and say if this confiding characteristic 
has been before observed. 
The temperature at Lorian was very high, a shade tempera- 
ture of 107° being observed. Mosquitoes were plentiful, but 
none of the party suffered from fever ; no tsetse fly was seen. 
SOME NOTES ON SPIDEES 
By J. K. Creighton 
May I draw attention to the great variety of spiders to be 
found in East Africa and the wide field open to the collector 
and microscopist, a branch of Natural History which has 
