(y2 Occasional ^^otes. 



this journey have not yet been fully worked out, and his death 

 — at a moment when his own assistance in the publication of 

 his records would have been of the greatest value — is a sad 

 loss to the ornitholoo-ical world. 



OCCASIONAL NOTES. 



(1) The Hon. Secretary has received a letter from 

 Dr. BowDLER Sharpe, expressing his thanks to the Members 

 of the Union for having done him the honour of electing him 

 an Honorary Member. 



(2) Mr. Lionel E. Taylor, of the Government Nurseries, 

 Irene, Transvaal, has been elected a Member of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union ; and Mr. A. D. Millar, of Durban, 

 has been elected as a Colonial Member of the same 

 Association. 



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

 Johannesburg, for a donation of £10 towards the Illustration 

 Fund of the Journal, such donation to be allocated to the 

 jtroduction of plates illustrative of Transvaal birds or their 



(4) At a meeting of the Johannesburg Field Naturalists' 

 Club, held on the 13th January, 1905, Mr. A. K. Haagner 

 read an interesting paper upon the economic value of some 

 of the commoner South African birds. In the discussion 

 which subsequently arose the action of the Transvaal Game 

 Protection Association in suggesting the offer of a reward 

 for the destruction of all birds of prey was strongly 

 condemned. 



(.5) The Annual General Meeting of the Johannesburg 

 Field Naturalists' Club was held in Norwich Union Buildino;s 

 on the 6th day of March, 1905. There was a large attendance. 



