A Contribution to the Ornithology of the East Side of Lake Tanganyika.

Abstract

Lake Tanganyika, with surface about 2500 ft. A.S.L., is 440 miles long and 15 to 50 miles wide. Half-way down the lake, where the Kungwe promontory constricts it from the east, a "submarine ridge" exists, but both north and south of this the lake extends to the great depth of about 6000 ft. It is, then, clear that for the most part the lake occupies a narrow steep-sided trough, and the effect is carried on above the water's edge by the mountainous surroundings which give the lake so magnificent a scenic character.