HUNTING.— BIRDS. BEASTS. 259 trees, Avhile other kinds of thrush with black or white heads [Turdus (ixos), leucocephalus (Crateropus), and xanthopygus (Arsinoe)], which crowd in llocks the lower bushes, by their chatterings, curious notes, and mocking songs remind us of the starling. The Marabous (Leptoptilus, here called Abu sein), has also become plentiful. The Schaigies take great delight in chasing these birds, (that have a difficulty in rising from the ground) on horseback, and even on dromedaries, either overriding them or knocking them down by throwing a stick, and then, without killing them, pull out the feathers under the tail and set them at liberty ; these feathers they sell to us for some trifle or other. Our collection increases, and we rejoice in the prospect of at a future time seeing them in the Berlin Museum, lor which we intend them. The animals now in that museum sent by us will be found enumerated in the Appeyidix. One bird, most plentiful in Chartum, the small red house-tit (Fring. Senegal L.), we have never seen here.

Of living animals, we have a young animal of the lynx species, here called fagged ; but, although we have had him many months by us, he is as little tamed as any weasel. Against my brother, though he has never beaten him, the beast has a j)eculiar spite, and he cannot pass near him without being in danger of feeling his sharj) claws driven into his feet. Besides, we have u young lion (the male lion here has no mane), and a kind of panther (here sometimes called nimr, tiger, a vague designation of all larger animals of the feline species, and sometimes, faggetl), which has ill! the way along its back a whitish mane, as broad as one's hand, under which, however, its i)eculiar spotted skin is observable especially when, as it grows older, this mane thins otf, seeming to be peculiar to the animal in its younger state. Further, we have a kind of squirrel, with a silver grey tail (Sciurus brachyotus Ehrenb.), which has become perfectly tame, and lives in strange intimacy with the lynx. Of these squirrels there seems to be plenty here, but never have 1 seen them on the trees, as with us ; they dig and grope about t!ie ground, especially where the natives have their corn pits. Of birds, we have only the Secretary, or snake-eater and a Horn-bird (IJuceros nasutus L.\ which was winged by a sliot. The lirst is verv liamlsorne, and lias tiie pcoulittrity t!i:it in.