THE IBIS. 



NINTH SERIES. 



No. V. JANUARY 1908. 



I. — Farther Xotes on the Birds of Gazaland. 

 By C. F. M. SwYNXERTO.v, C.M.B.O.U. 



(Plates I. & II.) 



I HAVE already, in ray former paper C^Ibis,' 1907, p. 30), 

 mentioned some of the boundaries of Gazaland and have 

 given a rough description of its high veld. A few further 

 details may be of interest. 



In its most limited sense, the term '^'^Gaza'' should he 

 applied only to the somewhat thickly-inhabited tract in the 

 neighbourhood of Beleni (inland from Louren^o Marques), 

 which for long formed the head-quarters of the conquering 

 Aba-Gaza. The country to the north, bounded roughly by 

 the Buzi, the Lusitu, and the two Musapa Rivers, is more 

 properly called Musapa ; but, in practice, the latter name 

 is seldom employed, the word " Gazaland " being invariably 

 used by South Africans to indicate the whole province actually 

 ruled and occupied (not merely raided) by the Aba-Gaza before 

 their final subjection at the hands of the Portuguese, right 

 up to the above-mentioned rivers. Gazaland lies chiefly on 

 the Portuguese side of the present political border, but 

 includes the Rhodesian district of Melsetter, and is bounded 

 on the east by the sea. 



Interest will be added to my notes on the distribution of 

 local species by the fact that 1 have had occasion during the 



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