A Contribution to the Ornithology of Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru.

Abstract

Although Kilimanjaro is the greatest mountain in Africa and was explored first by an Englishman (the missionary New, in 1871), it has been neglected by British scientific workers. Apart from Johnston's account (1886) of his visit fifty years ago there appears to be no other first-hand description of Kilimanjaro in an English publication until Gillman's (1923). This is the more surprising because, since the establishment of a series of climbers' huts, the ascent to the top of the life-zone at 15,000 ft. is easy enough to be made by dozens of tourists every year.