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INDEX 
Geese, diving power of (temporary), 49 
Genets, 253 
Geographical distribution of birds, 
1113 113 
Geographical distribution of mammals, 
9, 10, 344, 345 
Giant eland, 5, 290, 405 
forest-hog, 290 
Giraffe, 84, 85, 89, 92, 99, 101, 142, 
180, 231, 282, 322, 405, 408 
reticulated, 89, 205 
Glaucidium perlatum , 324 
“ Globe-spanners, 33 111, 390 
Glossy starling, 30, uy, 124, 320, 328 
Gnu, brindled, 9, 424 
Godwits, 42, 112, 140, 239, 315 
Goliath heron, 52,112,114, 139, 262, 392 
Gondokoro, 273, 278 
Goose, comb-, 47, 114, 138 
Egyptian, 42, 44, 46, 48 
spur-winged, 42, 46, 47, 138 
Gordon, a memento of, 308 
Goshawk ( Melierax ), 108, 114, 121, 
313 , 32i 
Grant Allen, 411 
Grass-fires, 17, 120, 142, 173, 210, 218 
Gray, Dr, 160 
Great spotted cuckoo, 384 
Grebes, 253 
Green bittern, 397, 398 
sandpiper, 315 
Greenshank, 43, 122, 115, 239, 293, 
297 , 315 
lesser, 140 
Grey hornbill, 124, 285 
Griffon, white-backed, 325 
Grivet monkey, 76, 319, 321 
Ground-squirrel, 253, 323 
Guinea-fowl, 62, 70, 124, 317 
Guinea-pigeons, 109 
Gull, black-headed, 293, 388 
Hemprich’s, 388, 398 
lesser black-backed, 293, 388 
marsh-, 43, 293 
white-eyed, 388, 389, 395, 399 
Gunther, Dr, 162 
Gyps africanus , 325 
“fulvescens” 369 
occipitalis , 325 
Hadendowa Arabs, 14, 310, 354, 371, 
373 
Halcyon chelicutensis 3 318 
Halia'etus vocifer\ 327, 376 
Hammer-head, 117, 239, 249 
Hamram Arabs, 14 
Hares, 27, 63, 70, 103, 323, 381, 403 
Harpooning hippopotamus, 198, 210 
Harrier, desert-, 434 
marsh-, 62, 116, 121 
pallid, 140, 293, 360, 434 
Harrier-eagle, 325, 326 
Hartebeest, Jackson’s, 69, 81, 82, 93, 
248, 282, 406 
korrigum, 32, 81 
Nakuru, 94 
Neumann’s, 94, 249, 282 
of Sudan, 93 
S wayne’s, 94 
Tora, 82, 94, 329 
Hawk, black sparrow-, 63 
red-eyed sparrow-, 383 
eagle, crested, 292, 293, 326 
Hawk-moths, 19 
Health and climate, 15, 37, 256, 353 
Hedgehog, 115, 253 
Helmet-shrikes, 124 
Helotarsus ecaudatus , 329, 376 
Hemiramphus , 393 
Hemp-aloes, 375 
Herodias alba , 60, 115 
brachyrhynchus , 60 
garzetta , 60 
Heron, black-headed, 58, 70, 115, 245 
buff-backed, 58, 239 
Goliath, 52, 112, 114, 139, 262, 392 
grey, 139, 432 
night-, 58, 63, 64, 246, 266, 269 
purple, 58, 117, 429 
reef-, 390, 392, 397 
squacco, 58, 64, 114, 233, 429 
white, 60, 115 
Heuglin, von, 97, 160, 342, 396, 398 
Hippopotamus, 57, 72, 136, 179, 193, 
210, 256, 261, 262 
spending day on land, 200, 202, 256 
strikes ship, 72, 193 
sub-aquatic grunts of, 204 
Hippotragus equinus , 95 
