Vol. III. No. 2. DECEMBEE 1907. Price 45. 



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CONTENTS. 



XII, The Waltzing Instinct in Ostriches. By J. E. Dueeden, M.Sc, Ph.D., 



A.R.O.S., President S.A.O.U 1^9 



XIII. Notes on the Birds observed during a Shooting-trip in Portuguese East 



Africa. By Eiciiard Spaurow, M.B.O.U., Major 7th Dragoon Guards. 174 



XIV. Notes on Birds observed and collected in the Districts of Port St. Johns, 

 Lusikisiki, FlagstaflP, and Bizana, Pondoland, during the Years 1904 

 to 1906 and the beginning of 1907. By C. G. Davies, C. M. Eiflemen. 

 (Plates VIII. & IX.) ■•••■••• 180 



XV. A full List of the more recent Works and Papers published on South 

 African Birds.— I. In ' The Ibis, a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology.' 



By Alwin Haagneb, F.Z.S., &c. -0« 



XVI. On a new Genus and Species belonging to the Fringillid<B from the 

 Transvaal. By Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, Director of the Transvaal 

 Museum and Zoological Gardens • -08 



XVII. Proceedings of the Union 210 



XVIII. Occasional Notes. (Plate X. : Pigmy Falcon.) 215 



XIX. Short Notices of Ornithological Publications 218 



XX. Obituary: Professor Newton, of Cambridge 225 



231 

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List of Illustrations. 



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