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large plantain-eaters; and birds like small jays with yel¬ 
low wattles round the eyes. There were boat-tailed birds, 
in color iridescent green and purple, which looked like our 
grakles, but were kin to the bulbuls; and another bird, 
related to the shrikes, with bristly feathers on the rump, 
which was colored like a red-winged blackbird, black with 
red shoulders. Vultures were not plentiful, but the yellow¬ 
billed kites, true camp scavengers, were common and tame, 
screaming as they circled overhead, and catching bits of 
meat which were thrown in the air for them. The shrews 
and mice which the naturalists trapped around each camp¬ 
ing place were kin to the species^we had already obtained 
in East Africa, but in most cases there was a fairly well- 
marked difference; the jerbilles for instance had shorter 
tails, more like ordinary rats. Frogs with queer voices 
abounded in the marshes. Among the ants was one ar¬ 
boreal kind which made huge nests, shaped like beehives 
or rather like big gray bells, in the trees. Near the lake, 
by the way, there were Goliath beetles, as large as small 
rats. 
Ten days from Kampalla we crossed the little Kafu 
River, the black, smooth current twisting quickly along 
between beds of plumed papyrus. Beyond it we entered 
the native kingdom of Unyoro. It is part of the British pro¬ 
tectorate of Uganda, but is separate from the native king¬ 
dom of Uganda, though its people in ethnic type and social 
development seem much the same. We halted for a day 
at Hoima, a spread-out little native town, pleasantly situ¬ 
ated among hills, and surrounded by plantations of cot¬ 
ton, plaintains, yams, millet, and beans. It is the capital 
of Unyoro, where the king lives, as well as three or four 
