Attraverso paesi africani sconosciuti; la prima spedizione dal Somaliland al lago Lamu . et profondo in ogni parte. Ci sono persone areno che vivono immediatamente sul lago tranne che nell'angolo del thenorthemse, ma la catena montuosa sul westernside è abitata sulle sue pendici più alte da una parte della tribù Amar. Il lago è di trentasette miglia geografiche; e quindici miglia di larghezza. Abbiamo trascorso tre giorni interessanti sul lago, collectingand Surveying. Ci erano molte specie di uccelli qui, che sono distribuiti in tutta l'Africa centrale, ma whichI ha visto ora per la prima volta, compreso un grande nero-coloredcuckoo,

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Through unknown African countries; the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu . et deep in any part. There areno people living immediately on the lake except at thenorthwest corner, but the mountain range on the westernside is inhabited on its higher slopes by a part of theAmar tribe. The lake is thirty-seven geographical mileslono; and fifteen miles wide. We spent three interesting days on the lake, collectingand surveying. There were many species of birds here, which are distributed throughout Central Africa, but whichI saw now for the first time, including a large black-coloredcuckoo, a yellow-breasted sun-bird, and a gray weaver-birdwhich builds a nest resembling the bowl and stem of atobacco pipe. The narrow hollow stems hang down abouteight inches, and through these the birds have to crawl toreach their nests. On some dead bushes that grew inabout four feet of water there was a community of cormo-rants which had just begun to sit. Dodson and I weretoo eag-er for a changfe of food to leave them unmolested, and for a long time we had not been in a country where. FISHES AND BIRDS — SHOOTINCr A RHIXOCEROS. 251 there were chickens ; so, rowing out in a boat, we collectedseveral dozen eggs, —enough to supply us with omeletsfor many days, and excellent omelets, too. I may say we lived very well on Lake Stephanie, forbesides the cormorants eggs, there were many teal andwhistling ducks about the marshes, the latter being verytender, and nearly equal to canvasbacks in flavor; and thelake also abounded in fish. Dr. Albert Giinther foundtwo species of fish new to science in the collection Imade on Lake Stephanie. There were many crocodilesand hippopotami in the lake, and they would often comequite near the boat, but they never ventured to attack us.Every evening great flocks of gray starlings with yellowwattles flew north past our camp, and myriads of aquaticbirds circled about the lake. The mosquitoes werefrightful at night, but a strong wind blowing from tliesou

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