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he would tackle tliis adversary. When near enough to 

 see the snake he sniit'ed at him from a little distance, 

 <;ave him a wide berth without a single bark and took 

 no further notice of him. 



How did he know that this was also a dangerous foe, 

 bur thai he could not be tackled like the other one? How 

 did lie learn to treat the two snakes so ditferenth'V 



K. Marloth. 



Nesting OF Larger Stripe-iireasted Swallow 

 {Hininclo cticuUata) . 



Last year a pair of large Stripe-breasted Swallows 

 nested under the iron roof of the stoep, and of course 

 whenever we had a gale or a hail storm the vibration of 

 the roof caused the nest to come down with a run. The 

 last disaster deposited two well grown youngsters on the 

 ground, and as 1 wanted to save the poor little beggars 

 I prepared a box and after putting the birds into it, 

 nailed it up in the old site of the nest — both birds were 

 successfully reared and took to the wing in due course. 

 T})e box T used was about 9 inch by 4 inch of the closed- 

 in cardboard variety fastened at the side by means of 

 tongues and slits, known as a carton, I believe, l lined 

 the box with cotton wool and cut a small hole, about the 

 size of the entrance to the original tunned, at one end 

 before putting the birds in and nailing it up. Now the 

 extraordinary thing is that the old birds have returned 

 this spring and occupied the box again without making 

 any alterations to it, with the exception of a small ring 

 of inud, half an intli round the entrance hole — there is 

 a bird sitting on eggs in the box at the moment of writing. 



GuRTH Edelsten^ Sepaui, Tvl. 



Ringed Stork. 



Mr. J. P. Murray reports the finding in February of 

 this year, of a ringed stork by Mr. Yeats near Thaba 



