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| | The birds of the Belgian Congo, part 1 : Electronic version |
 | | By this time the birds of the Tanganyika region were being collected by Captain Emile Storms (1882-1886), at Karema and Mpala especially. |
 | | This region, and even the Upper Katanga, were also reached by Dr. Richard Böhm, who had begun his field work in 1880 in East Africa between Zanzibar and Lake Tanganyika, and after two years of successful activity suffered the loss of important collections, equipment, and all his notes through a brush fire. |
 | | At the end of 1885, Jacques de Brazza, brother of the founder of the French Congo, returned from that region with a considerable ornithological collection, made with the assistance of MM. |
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