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identify from the type specimens in the British Museum any 

 skins collected by Members of the Union of which they may 

 be in doubt, and to answer any queries upon South African 

 Ornithology. 



(3) The thanks of the Union are due to Mr. Julius Jeppe, 

 Johannesburg, and Mr. E. F. Bourke, M.L.C., Pretoria, for 

 donations of £2 2s. each to the Illustration Fund of the 

 Journal. 



(4) At the ordinary monthly meeting of the Johannesburg 

 Field Naturalists' Club, held in Lancaster Buildings on the 

 16th December, 1904, the Hon. Secretary (Mr. H. A. Fry) 

 read an interesting paper on a collecting-trip to Parys (on 

 the Vaal River, in the Orange River Colony), and exhibited 

 specimens of the eggs of Buhdcus ibis (BufF-backed Egret), 

 of which he had found a colony nesting in willows near 

 the river. 



At the same meeting Mr. Duncan exhibited the eggs of 

 Thamnolcea cinnatnomeiventris (White-shouldered Bush-Chat), 

 taken from an old Swallow's nest at Orange Grove, near 

 Johannesburg, on October 26th, 1902 ; they are very 

 pale blue, marked with brown, chiefly at the larger end. 



(5) In the January number of 'The Ibis' (1904) appears 

 the first part of a paper, by Dr. R. Bow^dler Sharpe, on a 

 collection of birds from the district of Deelfontein in Cape 

 Colony. This paper is founded on a collection of skins, 

 including 123 species, presented to the British Museum by 

 Colonel Sloggett, C.M.G., Principal Medical Officer of the 

 Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at that place. 



The second part appears in the July number of the Journal, 

 and is accompanied by a coloured plate of jEgitlialus 

 caroli (Anderson's Penduline Tit) and JErjithalus capensis 

 (Cape Penduline Tit). The actual collecting was mainly 



