Flashlights in the Jungle; A Record of Hunting Adventures and of Studies in Wild Life in Equatorial East Africa baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX B A Synopsis of Herr C. G. Schillings' Collection of Birds COMPILED BY PROFESSOR A. REICHENOVV WITH REMARKS UPON THEIR DISTRIBUTION AND HABITS BY C. G. SCHILLINGS The references followed by numerals give the name of the place and the date at which the specimens were secured THE collection of birds brought together by Herr C. G. Schillings, as the result chiefly of his last three expeditions in East Africa, and in part presented by him to the Royal Zoological Museum in Berlin, comprises more than 1,000 skins, belonging to 355 species, and is one of the most comprehensive ever yet achieved in those regions. Unfortunately, a number of other skins--about 350 in all--were lost by the collector during their transport to Europe. Besides five newly discovered forms--namely, Pseudogyps africanus schillingsi Erl.; Ploceus schillingsi, Rchw.; Erythropygia plebeia, Rchw.; Cisticola schillingsi, Rchw.; and Calamocichla schillingsi, Rchw.--a number of these have now been found for the first time in the country traversed, such as Recurviroslra avocetta; Eupodotis jrandiana; A capita-nisus (the European sparrow-hawk), which had not hitherto been found south of Kordotan: Irrisorsenegalensis somaliensis; Apus trquatonahs; Anthus caffcr, hitherto unknown outside South Africa; Anthoscopus musculus; and others. Yet other species, such as Pants fringilKnus and Calandrella athensis, were hitherto known in only one or but a few variations. Of great scientific value also are series of birds of many kinds, notably several francolins and ducks and geese. Struthionidae i. Struthio masaicus, Neum. The Masai velt. Kebaya Masai, IV.; ol Donje l'Engai, X.; Kitumbin, X.; Njiri, V. Often observed on the velt. In August, 18 young ones, but full grown, in a flock on the left bank of...