64 Occasional Notes. 



collurio (Red-backed Shrike), Erytliropygia poena (Smith's 

 Ground-Robin), Brady ornis mariguensis (Mariqua Fly- 

 catcher), and Otis ccerulescens (Blue Bustard) . 



(7) At a meeting of the East London Natural History and 

 Scientific Society held on the 29th May, 1905, Mr. J. Wood 

 read an instructive paper upon the modern methods o£ classi- 

 fication and identification of Birds. At the same meeting 

 Mr. R. Center exhibited local specimens of Parra africana 

 (African Jacana), Campothera notata (Knysna Woodpecker), 

 and Cerijle maxima (Giant Kingfisher). 



(8) The Fourth International Ornithological Congress 

 took place in London in June 1905, under the Presidency of 

 Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe. The official record of the pro- 

 ceedings is not yet published, but will be referred to in the 

 next issue of this Journal. 



(9) In the next issue of the Journal it is hoped to publish 

 a coloured plate of the hitherto unfigured eggs of six species 

 of South African birds. The plate is at the time of going 

 to press in the hands of the well-known artist Mr. G. H. 

 Gronvold. 



(10) As the fourth and last volume of Stark and Sclater's 

 ' South African Fauna : Birds ' has not yet been issued, the 

 nomenclature in this number of the Journal is still taken 

 from the first three volumes of that work and for those 

 species not therein included from Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpens 

 edition of Layard's ' Birds of South Afi'ica.' In a few cases 

 in which neither of these works mention species reterred to 

 in the Journal the full reference to the Catalogue of the 

 British Museum is given. 



