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were examined and questioned and sent back into the house, and only 
General Adriano Concepcion bound and taken to the Lake* On the way 
to the boats I gathered shells and rocks* 
While Griffin was cooking breakfast we swam in the Lake which we 
afterwards found to be alive with Crocodiles, two of which were shot as 
we descended the Tuba River* While eating breakfast. Pvt, Skane (Capt* 
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McCoy’s orderly) let his winchester shot-gun off in camp and shot a boatman 
in the arm and forearm, inflicting a severe wound (buckshot) which I 
dressed* More shells were then collected and we started across the 
lake, and in the direction of Jabanga to skirt some lily-pads and marsh 
grass where we shot Tree Ducks ( Dendr ocygna ) Purple Gallinules, and Waterhens, 
then stopped at Jabanga, where I shot 2 Red-breasted Sunbirds, a Titlark 
and a Black -throated Sunbird* The birds seen on the Lake additional to 
the above were: 
Red-billed Frog-mouth 
Goatsucker 
Long- and Short-tailed Hirundos 
Swallow Shrike 
Crow, 
2 species of Motacilla 
White-headed Chat 
White -tailed Hawk 
Blue end white Kingfisher 
Blue and brown 1 large 
White-headed " 
Tringoides 
Little Brown Rail 
Brown Rice-bird 
Carpophaga aeneus 
Ra incrow 
Gray Cuckoo, small 
Hairy-back 
Rifle-Bird 
Naked -headed S tar 1 ing 
Little Brown dove 
Leaving Jabonga at 10 A, M* we paddled down the clear and gently 
flowing river* Many Water Turkies (Plotus) sat with wings akimbo and we 
shot one fine Crocodile, Large, thick-billed purple Gallinules and Waterhens 
