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Kew and packed up a case of birds’ skins, which 
will be sent off to-morrow addressed to you at 
the Museum, that you may take whatever is of 
interest from among them. . . . Among the birds 
you will find, I fear, little new. The ornithology 
seems to differ little from that of the West Coast 
and contains very many South African species [a 
^ong list of names follows] ; one species of duck 
is wanting, the specimens having been destroyed 
by insects before leaving the Zambesi while I 
Was away with Dr. Livingstone on one of the 
land journeys. 
‘ The only specimens I have got of a small 
agapornis were stolen along with my baggage at 
Lake Nyassa, by the treacherous natives of that 
part, who nearly had our scalps as specimens to 
S-dorn the trees which constitute their Zoological 
Gardens, or to form part of some powerful fetish 
*^0 be worn by their headmen. 
‘ Still, the collection will give some idea of what 
kinds inhabit these parts. 
‘There is one bird, a corythaix, which Dr. 
L- and I found on our first trip among the 
Mangunja Hills, one of the handsomest in the 
Country, and very local in its distribution. Even 
*-ke common birds will be of interest to me when 
determined, as giving the native names some 
degree of interest. ... I shall only be too glad 
go over them and give any details I may know. 
Those that are not of any value to the Museum 
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