A more remarkable call, but only heard in certain localities, was the strange bottle-bubbling echoing call of the Lark-heeled Cuckoo—a largish partridge-barred brown bird with a long tail—which was usually uttered at dark, or through the night, by a lone bird perched somewhere on the topmost twig of an outstanding bush or tree, sending his soft note-clear call out over the ocean of misty leaf-tops; where it would be picked up and responded to by another like sentinel at some other distant signal-post. The most common bird to enter our encampments was the White-necked Raven, a bird similar in habit and colour to the British Rook, but with a large white mark on the nape of the neck. He was the chief scavenger of our camps, though, sometimes, he was ably aided by the Egyptian Kite, one, or a pair, of which species was commonly with us. Common varieties of the neat little mouse-like Waxbills were, on occasions when we were near to permanent habitations, the only “sparrows” to visit camp. In odd hours, when the chance occurred, I, and one or two others who became interested, collected some specimens of bird life, chiefly with catapult and trap, in the absence of better weapons, and, notwithstanding the difficulties of storage and transport of the skins, at the end of the campaign had secured the specimens below recorded; which, along with a collection of butterflies, eventually, by purchase, passed into the magnificent collection in Lord Rothschild’s museum at Tring, where such splendid scientific research in world-wide zoology is being extensively and actively prosecuted. The correct nomenclature of all species has been very kindly formulated by Dr. E. J. O. Hartert, Director of the Tring Museum. LIST OF SPECIES COLLECTED Name of Species. Sex. Where Secured. Date. Reference No. WADERS Plover, Ringed (_Charadrius hiaticula hiaticula_) ♂ Maktau, B.E.A. 25.10.15 30 Stilt (_Himantopus himantopus himantopus_) ♂ Bura, B.E.A. 29.12.15 81 Sandpiper, Common (_Tringa hypoleuca_) ♀ Maktau, B.E.A. 27.9.15 12 HERONS, STORKS, ETC. Hammerhead (_Scopus umbretta bannermani_) ♂ Bura, B.E.A. 29.12.15 82 Heron, Buff-backed (_Bubulcus ibis ibis_) ♂ Moschi, G.E.A. 9.4.16 110 PIGEONS