NOTE 



The author and publishers both wish to gratefully 

 acknowledge their obligations to Messrs Bernard 

 Quaritch Ltd. for permission to reproduce the 

 coloured plates in Layard and Sharpe's " Birds of 

 South Africa." Plate L, Crested Eagle (Hieraactus 

 ayresi), is reproduced from The Ibis by kind permission 

 of the Committee of the British Ornithologists' Union. 

 To Edward Howe Forbush, the Ornithologist of the 

 Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture and the 

 Editor of Bird Notes and News, for literature. Also 

 for notes and extracts taken from the book " Birds of 

 South Africa " by Layard and Sharpe, and " The 

 Fauna of South Africa " (Birds) by Stark and Sclater. 



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