WOMEN TO STUDY BIRDS IN AFRICAN JUNGLE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6815, 19 January 1929, Page 11

WOMEN TO STUDY BIRDS IN AFRICAN JUNGLE

NEW YORK, Dee. 20. Mrs. Oscar S. Straus .will leave hero soon for a three months’- expedition into the heart of Africa for the 'American Museum of Natural History/ The trip, whielt Mrs/ Straus organised with Dr. Prank M. Chapman, curator of ornithology at the museum, is for the purpose of making a collection of birds in Nyasaland and a study of animals, natives'and types of country in Nyasaland and British East Africa. Rudvard Boulton, naturalist, of Pittsburg,* has been released by the Carnegie Museum to eecompany the expedition. Other members of the party will be Mrs. Boulton and Mrs. Straus’s personal companion. Mrs. Straus has frequently travelled in North Africa, but on this trip she will penetrate the central region, as-

pending the Nile by rail .and stenmor to its headwaters' at Juba, thonce across Uganda by easy motor stages to Jinga On Talse Victoria Nyanza, whore Mr. Boulton will collect 'birds in. the lowland rain forest for about a week. From Nairobi an 11-day trip will be made into the interior of Jfenya Colony to observe and photograph big game. The expedition will reach Mombasa, on the east coast, in March, whence Mrs. Stau3 and her companion will .return to America... Mr. and. Mrs. Boulton will continue their field work in Africa until the middle of August.