76 Messrs. A. Haagner and R. H. Ivy on the 



VIII. — TJie Birds of Albani/ Division, Cape Colony. 

 By Alwin HaacxNer, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., and Robert H. Ivy. 



(Plates III.-VI.) 



[The foundation for this paper was a collection — or, more 

 strictly speaking, the remains of a collection — of birds made 

 by my old friend Robert Ivy, of Grrahamstown. Through an 

 unfortunate accident a laroe number of the skins were 

 destroyed by fire. The remainder have been acquired by 

 the Transvaal Museum, and my thanks are due to Dr. J. W. 

 B. Gunning, F.Z.S., the Director, for allowing me access to 

 the same after they had left my hands. Mr. Ivy is mainly 

 responsible for most of the actual field-notes, and my hearty 

 thanks • are due to him and his sons, without whose able 

 guidance my sojourn amongst the Albany Kloofs in January 

 1907 would not have been nearly so successful. — A. H.] 



The Division of Albany is in the South-eastern Province of 

 Cape Colony, and has the small Districts of Bathurst and 

 Alexandria between it and the seaboard. We have confined 

 the list strictly to birds obtained within the borders of 

 Albany. Species not represented in the Tvl. Museum are 

 prefixed with an asterisk ; where species occur not so 

 represented but have since been obtained, and are in our 

 private collections, a reference will be made. 



Our thanks are due to Capt. Shelley for identifying several 

 dubious species ; and last, but by no means least, we must 

 express our indebtedness to Mr. Henrik Grronvold, the 

 celebrated artist of the British Museum, for his ever ready 

 help and sympathetic interest. 



1. CoRVULTUR ALBicoLLis (Lath.). Whitc-necked Raven. 



Very common at times. Nests taken near Grahamstown 

 in December 1892, January 1896, December 1896, and 

 November 1898. During the year 1890 they were very 

 plentiful, but of late years they have become much scarcer, 

 probably owing to the work of the poisoning clubs. Judging 

 by the way they follow one another, we should say they 



