A SHULI VILLAGE. 245 shaped corn granaries, huts for young girls, numerous votive huts, adorned with Achatina shells and horns of dwarf antelopes, all exist here, while now and then, in the background, can be seen a smithy, and the erections, so common among the Shuli, where men and women hold their separate meetings and gather together for conversation, are not wanting. ‘There is usually one of these men’s meeting-places on a terrace at the entrance of a village. Stands for hunting-trophies, consisting of horns, _ skulls, and jaws of slain animals, are to be seen, as also trophies of every variety of antelope that exists in the country, and of buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, and other animals of the cat tribe. There are said to be no lions here. Leopards live among the crags and rocks; wild cats and hyzenas are plentiful, the latter being notorious sheep-stealers. The inhabitants are Shuli, and therefore good hunters, but they cannot compare with the Latuka. Their arms—two spears only—their frisure, and their ornaments are identical with those of their southern kin. The women, too, resemble them in being almost entirely without clothing.

A boiling-point observation gave 3700 feet for the height of Agaru, and the necessary corrections should make it still higher. It is evident, therefore, why Agaru has always been considered a kind of sanatorium on account of its climate, a reputation which it well deserves.

Like Latuka, Agaru should yield many treasures to the collector. J found a weaver-bird, resembling the Hyphantornis Speker, but differing from it in its white under jaw and throat ; it 18 probably a new species. For the first time I met with the superb Pholidauges leucogaster, which appeared to be passing in small noisy flocks to the north-west. The beef-eaters (buphaga erythrorhyncha), which prove a sore pest to the cattle, were particularly numerous and bold. Kingfishers (Halcyon semicerulea), the beautiful IJspidina picta, and _ bee-eaters (Merops Bullock and M. pusillus) sat on the bushes catching insects. The hoopoe (Upupa epops) is also fairly common. Fringillidee appear in legions at this season of the year, being attracted by the ripening corn. While in Tarangole the place of the house sparrow is taken by the Philagrus melanorhynchus, it is here represented by the Passer Swainsont, a bird of the