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E. W. Clifton. The birds of Keiskama Hoek. 



Order — Herodiones. 



Family — Ardeidae. 

 Botaurus stellaris. — Com. 

 bittern. 



Ardea cinerea. — Grey heron. 

 ? Ardea — 



Family — Scopidae. 

 Scopus umbretta. — Hammer- 



head. 



Family — Ciconiidae. 

 Ciconia alba. — White stork. 



Order — Anseres. 



Family — Anatidae. 

 Anas xanthorhyncha. — 

 low billed Teal. 



Populär names, remarks, etc. 

 on and after Janu- 

 ary 29, 1887 — food being 

 scarce. They came and 

 went in one laree flieht. 



One specimen only seen, 

 close to village. »Rain- 

 bird" of Kaffirs. 



Frequent. 



A brown and olive spe- 

 cies, of size of A. cinerea, 

 not identified. 



<> Hammer -kop«. Fre- 

 quent. Marshy places. 



»Great locust bird«. 

 Usually common, but less 

 to this year, insect food 

 being scarce. The first was 

 seen on Dec. 4th (unusu- 

 ally late), on Dec. loth 

 there were a large number 

 to be seen; the last seen 

 was on Feb. 16. 1887. 



Yel- Now scarce. Formerly 

 plentiful. 



