Lewale sends for all Arabs to make a grand assault, as it is now believed that Mirambo is dead, and only his son, with few people, remains.
Two Whydah birds, after their nest was destroyed several times, now try again in another pomegranate-tree in the yard.

They put back their eggs, as they have the power to do, and build again.
The trout has the power of keeping back the ova when circumstances are unfavourable to their deposit.

She can quite absorb the whole, but occasionally the absorbents have too much to do; the ovarium, and eventually the whole abdomen, seems in a state of inflammation, as when they are trying to remove a mortified human limb; and the poor fish, feeling its strength leaving it, true to instinct, goes to the entrance to the burn where it ought to have spawned, and, unable to ascend, dies.
The defect is probably the want of the aid of a milter.
_27th May, 1872._--Another pair of the kind (in which the cock is redbreasted) had ten chickens, also rebuilds afresh.

The red cock-bird feeds all the brood.

Each little one puts his head on one side as he inserts his bill, chirruping briskly, and bothering him.