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ON SAFARI 
Black Duck— Anas sparsa. Differs from the last (though it 
“quacks” like a Mallard) in being of solitary habit, and 
in frequenting only hill-burns and wooded streams. A 
drake shot weighed 3 lbs., bill blue with black patches, 
feet orange with dark webs. White spots on scapulars; 
speculum purple. 
Pintail —Dafila acuta. 
Shoveler —Spatula clypeata. 
Garganey— Querquedula circia. 
Hottentot Teal— Nettium punctatum. Common on Naivasha, 
Elmenteita and Nakuru; but only found on the brackish 
salt-lakes. 
Common Pochard —Nyroca ferina. 
South African Pochard— N. africana. 
Both these are found on the lakes, the latter especially 
common on Naivasha. 
South-African Stiff-tailed Duck— Erismatura maccoa. I recog¬ 
nised this singular duck at once on Lake Elmenteita by 
its obvious similitude to the White-faced Duck ( E. leuco- 
cephala ) of Southern Spain. Both are long, low, heavily- 
immersed diving-ducks; both have the short wing and 
sheeny plumage of a Grebe, and the long stiff* tail of a 
Cormorant, which both carry at intervals bolt upright—as 
it were like a “jigger-mast.” 
I imagine, though I did not see the present species at 
its breeding-time, that it also will then have the bill 
swollen and dilated above. 
These European species are all 
abundant in winter. 
Flamingoes 
Flamingo— Phcenicopterus roseus. Frequents Lake Nakuru in 
great flocks; also observed, though in lesser numbers, on 
Elmenteita and Solai. Lake Hannington, however, ap¬ 
pears to be their great rendezvous. In the course of 
ages, they have so defiled the shallows and foreshores as 
to render the neighbourhood of that lake intolerable to 
white men. 
Lesser Flamingo— Ph. minor. Observed in small numbers on 
Nakuru. Plentiful elsewhere. 
