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Show 714 ON BIRDS FROM BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. [June 6, his best attention, and that he hoped, if he returned to England in July, to bring with bim a Grevy's Zebra, or perhaps even a pair. Grevy's Zebra (Equus yrevii), (From the living specimen in the Jardin dAcclimatation, Paris.) Mr. A. Blaynay Percival, F.Z.S., exhibited a series of Bird-skins which he had lately obtained at Chiromo in British Central Africa ; also some Insects from tbe same locality. Mr. Percival read the following notes on the Birds :- 1. MACHcERHAMPHUS ANDERSSONI. This bird is a night-flier, and is a rare species. M y specimen was obtained one evening in the early part of August, 1898, while I was waiting for ducks. In flight it much resembles a falcon ; in fact, until it came to hand I thought it was one. Its stomach was quite empty and the bird itself was in very poor condition. It is a young male in changing plumage. One other example was seen near the Shire Biver, some 25 miles from where I obtained m y specimen. 1 spent almost the whole of one night watching for it, then told my gun-boy to stay, and promised him a reward if he got the bird; he saw it on the following evening, but did not get a shot. Later on he brought me a female Polyboroides typicus, which he said was the right bird, and was anxious to have the reward. |