DESCRIPTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND 

 HABITS OF THE BIRDS 



Illustrated in Volumes I. and II. 



The Volume and page after the name of each Bird refer 

 to the position of the illustrations throughout the text. 



NOTE 



The classification in Stark and Sclater's " Fauna of 

 South Africa " (Birds, vols, i.-iv.) has been followed in 

 this list. The Common, Vernacular, and Native names 

 have also been adopted. 



Drs J. W. B. Gunning and Alwin Haagner compiled 

 a check list of the birds of South Africa in 1910. They 

 adopted Dr Reichenow's " Vogel Africes " as the founda- 

 tion of the list, holding that his was the only complete 

 modern work on African ornithology. 



However, curators of museums, ornithologists, and 

 students generally are so familiar with the scientific and 

 common names adopted by Layard and Sharp, Stark and 

 Sclater, that the author considers it unwise to cause 

 confusion by altering them until a complete and permanent 

 revision of the genera and species has been accomplished. 



Those who prefer to follow Dr Reichenow's classifica- 

 tion are referred to the above-mentioned check list by 

 Gunning and Haagner : also a Review of the Nomenclature 

 of South African Birds, by Austin Roberts. These records are 

 published in the '* Annals of the Transvaal Museum," 

 vol. ii., July 1910, and vol. viii., Part 4, 30th October 

 1922 respectively. 



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