On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life

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Identifier: onsafaribiggameh00chaprich (find matches)
Title: On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929
Subjects: Hunting -- Africa, British East Birds -- Africa, British East Africa, British East -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green London : Edward Arnold
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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TRUMPETER HOKNBILL. of very large pig. These, our men assured us, carried notusks. Of the bongo we saw not a sign. Although unseen, we were, liowever, conscious, by arecurrent ringing clamour, that there existed livingcreatures high above—practically in another world.These strident outcries we at first attributed to eagles,perhaps correctly. But presently we realised that otherfeathered neighbours, hardly inferior in size, dwelt over- THE MAU FOKEST 193 head. These were huge black hornbills. Merely fleet-ing and momentary were the glimpses we could get w^itha spyglass; but, such as these were (and the idea wasconfirmed by those clarion notes), we concluded thatthese w^ere the great trumpeter hornbill (Bycanistes
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A HOEXBILL OF SOTIK. huccinator), whose portrait is roughly portrayed opposite.Whatever they were, these hornbills were numerousenough in the dense forest. A few days later, in somerather more open country towards Sotik, we enjoyeda better view of quite another hornbill, which sat ona dry branch plunged in reverie. In this case the casque w^as not a semi-separated superstructure, so 194 ON SAFARI to speak; but rather tlie reduplication of a beakalready grotesquely exaggerated—as shown on previouspage. In the Sotik countr)^ we also observed many ofthe smaller kind of hornbill (Loj^hoceriis), as wellas crimson-winged touracos, dark-olive wood-pigeons(Columha arquatrix), bush-shrikes (Dri/oscojDUs), black

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