PROCEED TO THE SOUTH. 157 ficht and makes a snarling noise; its native name is daggadagga. Of the common fowl and the half-breed, I obtained a yellow-billed, yellow-footed francolin and a delicate, pretty Turniz leburana, called by the natives amvuddu, and by the Kinyéro andula. The harlequin quail (Cotwrnix Delegorguet) is very common, and I believe this to be its native place. From Dufilé southward this bird is to be found throughout the whole country; it appears, however, to wander periodically from south to north. Its habits are just those of the ordinary quail, but its cry is very different, although it does remind one of the quail. The native name is aluru, the Kinyéro name heru. Later on, in Hlema, I found the hitherto (I believe) unknown eggs of this bird. ; In addition, I may say that here, as southward towards the equator, the doléb palm is rarely seen. A yellow flowering Cassia, having a strong aperient action, is very common.

After a very short stay, we left our station of Mahagi early, under a clouded sky, in order to visit Mahagi proper, lying farther to the south. A strong south wind and a light load caused the steamer to roll horribly. After making a great curve to avoid the shallows which he to the south of our station, we steamed on, having the shore at a short distance to our right. The mountains were enveloped by a thick fog, which also completely veiled the eastern border of the lake. Small white waves were raised by the wind upon the deep green water, in which numbers of darters were fishing. The sparsely wooded mountains, which at this time were on fire for days, rise to a considerable height, and culminate in Jebel Kruku, a very massive mountain with deeply furrowed flanks. A ravine separates it from the next chain, which runs behind the other one, and from this point the mountains come down sheer into the lake without the intervention of a level tract of land. ‘The lake is low now, and a narrow foreshore, mostly covered with rubble, hes exposed.

Between the station and Jebel Eruku the level tract along the lake narrows to six hundred yards, but it is well wooded. The whole of the thinly wooded mountains are furrowed by deep water-channels, which are filled with luxuriant vegetation -and bamboo thickets, small waterfalls being very numerous.