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do-Sabie on the 20th June, 1906. I should not call the 

 crown o£ the head and the patch from the base o£ the beak 

 to below the eye exactly slaty blue ; the central band of 

 black on the throat was very indistinct, due to the base of 

 the feathers being black, whilst the tuft of decomposed 

 feathers on the nape was very pale. 



2<6. Otis afroides. (White-quilled Knorhaan.) 

 Four were shot on August 10th, 1906, at Mangula, Gaza- 

 land. There were 12 together in a flock. 



27. CEdicnemus vermiculatus. (Water Dikkop.) 



I shot this bird on the Inkomati River near Mangula on 

 August 19th, 1906. 



28. Glareola melanoptera. (Nordmann's Pratincole.) 

 I saw and shot birds answering this description on an 



island on the Tswali Lake in August 1906. 



Dr. Atherston, of Port Alfred, informs me that he has shot 

 and eaten this bird, which caused him symptoms of ptomaine 

 poisoning. 



29. AcTOPHiLUS AFRICANUS. (African Jacana.) 



I first saw and shot this bird in a pan near the Inkomati 

 on the border of the Sabie and Magar districts. When 

 wounded, it hid in the reeds, keeping all but its bill under 

 water. On the Kolivan River they were very numerous and 

 very tame. They rose singly and in flocks up to two dozen 

 in number and were quite a nuisance, because they flew 

 before me a short distance at a time and put up the game 

 — ducks &c. — which I was attempting to shoot. 



30. LoBiVANELLUS LATERALIS. (Wattled Plover.) 



I shot a specimen of this bird at the end of June on a vlei 

 on the border of Sabie and Magxida near the Inkomati, but 

 the wattle was not red in colour — it was gamboge. 



31. HorLOPTERUS ARMATUS. (Blacksmith Plover.) 

 Very common on the Tswali and Manzi Mhlope. 



32. Struthio australis. (Southern Ostrich.) 



On the 11th August, 1906, I saw an Ostrich's nest at 



