Though he had heard of us, he had never seen white men before.
Beautiful crowned cranes, named from their note "ma-wang," were seen daily, and were beginning to pair.

Large flocks of spur-winged geese, or machikwe, were common.

This goose is said to lay her eggs in March.

We saw also pairs of Egyptian geese, as well as a few of the knob-nosed, or, as they are called in India, combed geese.

When the Egyptian geese, as at the present time, have young, the goslings keep so steadily in the wake of their mother, that they look as if they were a part of her tail; and both parents, when on land, simulate lameness quite as well as our plovers, to draw off pursuers.