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Early in the morning numerous other little songsters were chirruping merrily away, some singing quite as loudly as our English thrushes; and one, the king-hunter, Halcyon senegalensis, makes a clear whirring sound like that of a whistle with a pea in it. As we were returning, suddenly we saw streaming out of a hole innumerable flying creatures. They formed a dense column.
Monsieur Desmoulins describes two species, one the H. Capensis, or the hippopotamus of the Cape, and the H. Senegalensis of the Senegal river. How the animal obtained its name would be difficult to imagine, since a quadruped more unlike a horse could hardly exist.
It should be noticed that in all Coleoptera the effective part of the rasp is destitute of hairs. In O. senegalensis the difference between the sexes is more strongly marked, and this is best seen when the proper abdominal segment is cleaned and viewed as a transparent object.
Abissinie, Sennaar, Homran, Galabat, Kordofan. Tr. sylvaticus, Spaerm. Bahr el Abiad. Tr. Dekula, Rupp. Amhar. Dekoula. Arab. Houch. Djenke, Ber. Taka, Abissinie, Bahr el Abiad. B. Mauritanica, Sund. Arab. Tetel; Tigreh, Tori. Taka, Homran, Barka, Galabat, Kordofan, Bahr el Abiad. B. Caama, Cuv. Arab. Tetel. Djenke, Awalwon. Bahr el Abiad, Kordofan meridionale. B. Senegalensis, H. Smith.
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