On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa with studies in bird-life (1908)
Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929, Gough, George P., former owner. DSI, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Edward Arnold · leaf 89
H ON THE EQUATOR 59 August. Bee-eaters, of vivid greens and red, flashed in the sunlight ; but a yet more brilliant hue was displayed by an azure kingfisher. There were quaint hornbills, rollers and bubbling bush-cuckoos — the latter not heard since leaving Mombasa- — eagle-owls, buzzards and hawks… … COTJCAL, OR BUSH-CUCKOO. Known as “ Water-bottle bird” at Mombasa. by a pestilent swamp on the Molo, we were doubting whether death itself might not be welcome when a merciful squall blew up and dispersed them. Another march across a torrid plain where great red ant-hills towered up in hundreds,…
Big game hunting · Bird watching
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