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INDEX 
Lado Enclave, 273, 284, 290 
Lagonosticta , 304 
Lakes, equatorial, 259 
“Lalob,” 101 
Lammergeyer, 347, 378 
Lamprocolius , 117, 124, 328 
Land-crabs, 394 
Land-snails, 288 
Laniarius erythrogaster , 285, 324 
Lanius leuconotus , 30, 348 
paradoxus , 348 
Lanner, 109, 320 
Lapwing, red-wattled, 324 
white-tailed, 43, 315, 431 
yellow-wattled, 292 
Lark, bush-, 59, 147, 208 
crested, 22, 358, 395 
desert-, 28, 310, 348, 357, 394, 433, 
434 
finch-, 22, 395, 433 
sand-, 27, 30, 357, 360, 433 
short-toed, 359 
Larus cirrhocephalus , 293 
hemprichi , 388, 398 
leucophthalmus , 388, 389, 390, 399 
minutuSj 43 
Lavender, 375 
Lechwi, saddle-backed, 5, 93, 130, 132, 
137, 149, 247, 420 
Zambesi, 150 
Legge, Hon. Gerald, 94, 98, 383 
Leopard, 64, 123 
Leptadenia spartium , 26 
Lesser white-throat, 255, 304, 348 
Lianas, 242, 249 
Lichtenstein’s desert-babbler, 359 
Light, effects of, 416 
Limnotragus , 150 
Lion, 66, 78, 101, 103, 107, 124, 133, 
474? 197) 231 
unrecognised in daylight, 67, 104, 
113, 174 ) 4 i 4 
Little owl, 360 
stint, 113, 293, 315 
Lizard, frilled, 349, 382 
monitor, 268 
Lizards, 18, 115, 124, 286, 349, 382 
Lobivanellus senegallus , 292 
Locustellce, 265 
Long-claw, golden, 255 
Lophoaetus occipitalis , 326, 376 
Lophoceros erythrorhynchus , 62, 117 
nasutus , 124, 285 
Lowe, Willoughby, 127, 143, 146, 170, 
181, 189, 206, 208, 212, 252, 255, 
265, 266, 308, 351, 361, 362, 373 
Lybius abyssinicus , 293 
Lynes, Capt. H., 118, 120, 123, 133, 
189, 200, 255, 266, 267, 288, 308, 
342) 357) 359 ) 380, 39° 
Macronyx , 255 
Mahdi, a minor, 53 
Mahdiism, 39 
Mahmud, the Emir, 33 
Mahomed Maghazi, 36, 230, 249 
Malek,"275 
Mallard, 51 
Mamba snake, 230, 254 
Mangrove-bush, 392 
Manis, 334 
Mantis, 18 
Marabou, 43, 90, 94, 112, 139, 141, 
294 ) 315 
Marl, 247 
Marsh-gulls, 43 
harrier, 62, 116, 121 
sandpipers, 140 
warblers, 264 
Martins, 254, 321 
Massacre of game by natives, 216, 
248 
Melierax gabar, 63, 122, 320 
polyzonus , 114, 118, 121, 313 
Mentality of the savage, 222 
Merlin, red-naped, 114, 255, 321 
Merops albicollis , 293 
apiaster , 383 
frenatus , 318, 323,. 324 
nubicus , 284, 296 
Mesembryanthemum, 375 
Meshra-el-Rek, 262, 408 
Mesopicus goer tan, 324 
Microparra capensis , 266, 267 (jacana) 
Mice and rats, 253, 323 
Mice, spiny, 252, 323, 381 
Migration, “ assisted passages,” 267 
of arid, 355 
