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p. 86 (S. Thome, Custodia de Borja) (1879), n. xliv. p. 251 

 (nota) (S. Thome, Neivton) (1887) ; Lopes Vieira, Instituto, 

 no. 11, p. 2 (S. Thome, Moller) (1887) ; Sousa, op. cit. 

 pp. 152, 153, 156 (S. Thome, Nunes and Gomes Roberto) 

 (1888) ; Boc. op. cit. n. xlvii. p. 149 (Rio de Manuel Jorge, 

 F. Newton) (1888), xlviii. pp. 211 (jeune femelle, Poto, 

 F. Newton), 233 (S. Thome) (1888) ; (2) n. i. p. 36 (part.) 

 (1889) ; n. ii. p. 144 (St. Miguel, F. Newton) (1889) ; n. iii. 

 p. 209 (Rio do Ouro, F. Newton) (1889); n. vi. p. 78 

 (St. Miguel, Hot das Rollas, F. Newton) (1891). 



Corythornis cristata Boc. (nee L.) Joru. Sc. Lisb. i. p. 134 

 (S. Thome, Gomes Roberto) (1867) ; Sousa, ibid. no. xlvii. 

 p. 153 (1888). 



Corythornis galerita Sharpe, Mon. Alced., Introd. p. viii 

 (part.) (1871); id. Cat. B. xvii. p. 166 (part.) (1892). 



Local name, "Cunobia^' (F. Newton). 



XXXV. — More Ornithological Notes from the Transoaal *. 

 By Alwin C. Haagneb. 



I OFFER to the readers of ' The Ibis ' two rough lists — 

 one of birds observed by Mr. Alexander Ross, F.Z.S., in 

 Johannesburg and the neighbourhood, and the other of those 

 noticed by myself at Modderfontein and on the neighbour- 

 ing farms. Modderfontein is in the Pretoria district, not 

 quite ten miles from Johannesburg. The two lists are 

 interesting when compared one with the other. Why should 

 a certain species be common in Johannesburg and tolerably 

 scarce at Modderfontein, as, for instance, Nectarinia famosa? 

 Perhaps the slight difference in vegetation, such as the 

 presence of mimosa-trees and rank weeds, may account 

 for the fact. 



Many birds of Modderfontein I have not been able to 

 determine on account of the want of works of reference. 

 Several of the specimens are in the hands of Dr. Gunning, 

 of the Pretoria Museum, among them being a Gull shot on 



See ' Ibis; 1901, p. 190. 



