NAME INDEX 



Agriculturist, foes of, 82-107; friends of, 10-81, 117, 159, 195, 207, 



221-225, 282 

 Aquatic weeds on the Aapies River, 198 



Babblers, 168-170 



Jardine's (Kakelaar), 168 



Pied, 169 

 Barbets, 53-57 



Black-collared, 53 



Pied, 54 



Crested, 57 



Tinker-Bird, Cape, 55, 56 ; origin of name, 55 



Tinker-Bird, Yellow-fronted, 55 

 Bee-eater, 46-48 



European (Berg Zwaluw), 46 ; a migrant, 46 



Blue-cheeked, 46 ; a migrant, 46 



Carmine-throated, 46 ; its great beauty, 46 ; a gorgeous sight, 47 



Little, 47 



White-fronted, 47 

 Bird architects, 85, 108-142 

 Bird -parasites, 270-290 



Birds of river and vlei, 228-261 ; of sea and coast, 262-269 

 Bishop- and Widow-Birds, 118-124 



Red Bishop (Kaffir-fink), 118, 119 ; gregarious, 119 ; very destructive 

 to grain crops, 119 



Golden Bishop, 120 



Cape or Yellow Bishop, 120, 121 



Long-tailed Widow (Sakabula), 121 



Red-collared Widow, 122, 123 



Pintailed Whydah (Koning Rooibekje), 123 



Shaft-tailed Widow, 123 



Paradise Widow, 124 

 Bitterns, 240 

 Bulbuls, 85-86 ; great fruit-thieves, 86 ; hosts of Cuckoos, 86, 170 



Sombre (Bosch-vogel, Pilawit), 169 



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