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Mr. G. H. Gurney on 
rediscover it, though somewhat strange that it should have 
remained unrecognised all these years. 
Although I have not met with this form up to the present 
in the Giza Province it probably occurs there, and I insert 
it in the present paper, as I consider that it is of 
importance to call attention to this long unrecognised bird. 
During the winter I have never met with any Hoopoes in 
the Province, but all those obtained while passing through 
during the migration-seasons—when they are very abundant 
-—belong to the small race. 
[To be continued.] 
XXV .—Notes on a Collection of Birds made in British East 
Africa. By Gerard H. Gurney, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
With the combined objects of shooting big game and 
collecting birds, I left England for East Africa on December 
26th, 1908, and after an uneventful voyage arrived at 
Mombasa on January 15th, 1909. After spending three 
days there I went, with Sir Edmund Loder (himself a good 
naturalist and a splendid shot), by train to Nairobi. Our 
original intention had been to go on a shooting-trip to the 
little-known Lake Natron ; but, finding that this plan was, 
for several reasons, impracticable, we decided first of all to 
make an expedition to the Kauti Plains. So after all the 
necessary arrangements for a long expedition into the inte¬ 
rior had been made, we started in an easterly direction from 
Nairobi and marched across the Athi Plains to the Athi 
River as far as Donio Sabuk; thence we turned to the left, 
recrossed the Athi River, and proceeded over the Kauti 
Plains nearly as far as Mount Twiniango. Then we retraced 
our steps, and followed for some days the Thika River, 
which we finally crossed near Yoroni. We came back by 
the east side of Donio Sabuk, returning to Nairobi on 
February 17th. Three days later, by the advice of Mr. F. J. 
Jackson, 1 went up to Naivasha, where I spent four weeks, 
chiefly camping at the south end of the lake and on the west 
