<i{) REV. liOBERT GODFREY 



The Cape Penduline Tit — Anthoscopus ininutus 

 (Shaw and Nod.) — is known locally as the Snow-bird 

 from its beautiful domed nest of wool or vegetable down. 

 On 21st November, 19UT, Mr. Matthews, of Woodstock, 

 Alice, on whose farm this little bird is a well-known 

 breeding-species, showed me a nest taken locally, and on 

 15 November 1010 at Fort Beaufort, Mr. Kenneth Ander- 

 aon shewed me another taken in his neighbourhood. 



J\vni has obtained the nests from Queenstown and 

 Stutterheim. These occurences are beyond our borders, 

 but within our area it has been met with at Cambridt^e 

 by Colonel Griffith who informed Mr. John Wood of the 

 fact. 



The Cape Long-Tailed Sugar-Bird — Promerops cafer 

 (L) — reaches in the Buffalo Basin the Eastern limit 

 of its range. It is one of our rarer species but has been 

 seen by Pym on the Amatola mountains, and is repre- 

 sented in the local Museum by a male procured at Kei 

 Koad by Miss Hudson in 1004 (The allied Natal Sugar 

 ]Urd — P. gurneyi Verr — does not occur nearer us than 

 Elliotdale, whence, on 2S November, 1011, a specimen 

 obtained by Rev. J. Henderson Soga in a fruit-net in his 

 garden at Miller was forwarded for identification). 



The Orange l^reastcd H<meysucker — ycvtininiu 

 violacai (L) — also reaches in the Buffalo the Eastern 

 outskirt of its dislributional area, and has only onco 

 been obtained here. The specimen referred to, taken by 

 Pym at Pirie in October, 1003, is now in the local 

 Museum. 



The Malachite Honeysucker — N. fainosa (L) — is 

 widely (list lihu ted, though not numerous, both above and 

 below tlie forest-belt, being naturally more abundant in 

 tlu' iKM'glibourhood of such favourite honey-bearing 

 l>lanis as the sugar-bushes and the Kaffir-boom 

 i Hrj/tJirliHf caffra, Thunb. ) In the spring months these 

 })irds mingle with their allies, as well as with the gor- 

 geous black-headed oriole, the noisy parrots, the unob 

 tusive bottle-nest weaver, the red-shouldered ;jlossv- 



