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and his Ornithological Work. 
that his twin brother Robert was constructing a lake on 
his father's estate near Oranbrook. To commemorate the 
event, it was determined to make it in shape as nearly as 
possible a miniature facsimile of Lake Chad. The Lake 
at Swifts Place is now a very exact representation of the 
original, as determined by Boyd's Survey, and characteristic 
features have been added such as the boat-house and duck 
huts upon the banks and the island, which resemble the 
reed-built huts of the Buduma tribe inhabiting Lake Chad. 
Of his last journey we can say but little. He visited 
the Islands of San Thome, Principe, and Annabon, in the Gulf 
of Guinea, on each of which he made a complete collection of 
birds, and, after touching at Fernando Po, crossed to Cameroon. 
There he ascended the Peak and made extensive collections, 
one of his most important discoveries being a remarkable 
species of Francolin (Francolinus earnerunensis) in which the 
plumage of the two sexes is entirely different. From his last 
letter to the writer, dated near Victoria 30th of April, 1909, the 
following passage is extracted :—“ I have worked pretty hard 
on the peak of Cameroon and I do not think I have ever had 
more difficult collecting. The forest is so thick that I lose 
nearly half of what I kill. I had an appalling time of it on 
the mountain during the first night of the earthquake. My 
camp was at an altitude of 8,000 feet. At each boom from 
the mountain above us the ground danced like a live thing 
and torrents of stone poured down the hill not half a mile 
from where we were camped, forest-trees came crashing 
down and snapped in two like match-sticks, and the cries 
of terrified monkeys flying before the torrent added, if that 
was possible, to the dreadful scene. I abandoned my camp 
at three in the morning and only just in time, for an hour 
later the place was destroyed." 
After leaving Cameroon he made his way once more to 
Lake Chad and finally, as has already been told, started 
on his last journey through Wadai. 
He now lies beside his brother Claud, his body having 
been recovered and brought back to Maifoni, a British Post 
near Lake Chad. 
