304: Annals of the South African Museum. 



In the following list the numbers exactly correspond to those in 

 the printed volumes. Additional species and subspecies have been 

 denoted by the addition of a letter to the number of the species most 

 nearly corresponding. 



Where an asterisk is prefixed to a number further information will 

 be found in the second part of the paper. 



The distribution of each species in South Africa is approximately 

 indicated by the capital letters, where CC. = Cape Colony, with 

 N. north, S. south, W. west, and E. east, prefixed where necessary. 

 N. = Natal, with sometimes U prefixed for Upper, as opposed to the 

 Coastlands. Z. = Zululand. O. = Orange Eiver Colony. TV. = 

 Transvaal. B. = Bechuanaland Protectorate. Eh. = Southern 

 Rhodesia. G. = German South- West Africa. P. = Portuguese 

 East Africa south of the Zambesi, including the territories of Delagoa 

 Bay and Beira. 



The following is a list of the more important works and papers 

 that have appeared since the publication of the first volume of the 

 Birds of South Africa in 1900 :- 



1. SHELLEY, G. E. The Birds of Africa. Vol. i., List, 1896. 



Vol. ii., Passeres Families, Pittidae, Philepittidae, Nectariniidae, 

 Prorneropidas, Zosteropidae, Parisomidse, Paridae, Certhiidae, 

 and Motacillidae, pt., 1900. Vol. iii., Motacillidae, Alaudidae, 

 and Fringillidae, 1902. Vol. iv., pt. i., Ploceidae in pt., 1905, 

 London, R. H. Porter, 8vo. 



2. REICHENOW, ANT. Die Vogel Afrikas. Vol. i , Struthionidae- 



Strigidae, 1900-1901. Vol. ii., Psittacidae-Sturnidae, 1902- 

 1903. Vol. iii., pt. 1, Ploceidge-Pycnonotidae, 1904 [not yet 

 completed]. Neudarnm, J. Neuman, 8vo. 



3. WOODWABD, E. B. and J. D. S. Natal Birds. Pietermaritzburg, 



1899, 8vo. 



4. ALEXANDER, B. An Ornithological Expedition to the Zambesi 



Eiver. Ibis, 1899, pp. 549-583, pi. xi. ; 1900, pp. 70-109, 

 pp. 424-458. 



5. MARSHALL, G. A. K. Notes on Mashonaland Birds. Ibis, 1900, 



pp. 221-270. 



6. SHARPE, R. B. On a Collection of Birds obtained by Mr. H. S, 



H. Cavendish in Mozambique. Ibis, 1900, pp. 109-115. 



