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ORNITHOLOGY. 
to the natives themselves, than that anything human 
can exist in such a pestiferous locality, and the fulness 
of the creeks warned us that the most deadly season was 
rapidly approaching. 
In the thickets surrounding Aboh, we saw many rare 
and fine specimens of African ornithology. The red- 
billed hornbill {Buceros erythrorynclius), with its hoarse 
grating call ; the little rufous-necked weavers, with their 
pensile and curiously interwoven nests suspended in 
great numbers from every palm or cocoa-tree. The 
Symplectes chrysomus, or yeUow-hodied weaver; the 
African golden oriole {Oriolus auratus), in its rich 
yellow and black plumage ; the pennant-winged nightjar, 
with its long filamentous streamer in each wing ; 
together with several of those beautiful little creatures 
the Cinnyrid(B, or sun-hirds, of these the white-bodied 
(or Anthreptes leucosoma), the Cm. chalybea, or red- 
collared sun-bird, in its prevailing rich green and gold, 
and double collar of blue and crimson, hut the most rare 
and singular one was the Nectarinia Adelberti Eboensis, 
or Eboe sun-bird, since figured in Sir William Jardine’s 
work on the Nectarinidee — two specimens of which 
were shot. The general plumage is rich dark brown 
approaching to black in some places, a patch of emerald 
green — metallic lustre — on the crown of the head, 
extending downwards and backw^ards in two narrow 
lines below the chin ; breast a dirty cream colour. 
While procuring specimens, a curious circumstance 
took place. A large grey-headed Senegal king-hunter. 
