. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . ound his mighty spoor of the night before. Thiswe followed for miles, in and out, always throughcomparatively open ground and loose forest, highlyfavourable for our attack had the elephant been there,but he was not. It became evident that, althouo-h hemight come hither every night to feed, he had someother stronghold to which he retired by day. We sawmany waterbuck in these forests, though no really goodheads, and a superb pair of white-headed fish-eagles{Haliaetus vocifer) kept screaming and circling overhead.
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . ound his mighty spoor of the night before. Thiswe followed for miles, in and out, always throughcomparatively open ground and loose forest, highlyfavourable for our attack had the elephant been there,but he was not. It became evident that, althouo-h hemight come hither every night to feed, he had someother stronghold to which he retired by day. We sawmany waterbuck in these forests, though no really goodheads, and a superb pair of white-headed fish-eagles{Haliaetus vocifer) kept screaming and circling overhead. 64 ON SAFARI Both the woods of Njemps and the marshes of theMolo that adjoined them swarmed with strange birdsand unknown w^ater-fowh Gladly would I have spentmore time in investigating these, but the major questforbade. There were squawking bronze-green parrots—I took these to be parrots—an elusive cuckoo with ruddybreast that betrayed his genus by a muffled note, butavoided all save a fugitive glance. There were wood-peckers great and small—some no bigger than creepers;. EAEBET. Colours gold, lemon and crimson, black and white, barbets—thick-set, dumpy birds, in coloration akin tothe last, thouo;h so different in habit: bush-shrikes andbabblers; tiny warbler-like white-eyes {Zosterops),cousins of the sun-biids ; colies in little jDarties, andglossy starlings {Lamprocolius), the latter nesting inhollow trees as starlings do at home. In the marsheswe noticed various herons and egrets, spur-wing plovers,common and other sandpipers, kingfishers azure andpied, rails and chestnut-red jacanas. Next morning our scouts were away before dawn,but I was glad to be told that an early start was notnecessary, since, having tramped over thirty miles theprevious day, I wanted an easy. At ten oclock alittle wizened savage (the same who had brought thefirst news to Baringo) came in and reported he hadactually seen the elephant at dawn, that he was an AFTER ELEPHANT AT BARINGO 65 enormou
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