41: (>ccaxiuiKil Xofes. 



(2) The thanks of the Union are due to Lieut. Stanley 

 Pershouse, 5tli M.I., for a donation of £2 2.v. towards the 



Illustration Fund of the Journal. 



(IV) ]\Ir John A. Bucknill has been elected a Fellow of 

 the Zoolof{ieal tSocietv of London. 



(•4) In the Teni])orary Museum arranged at the Johannes- 

 burg Technical Institute durintr the recent visit of the 

 British Association an Ornithological exhibit was shown, 

 consisting of the collections of skins made by the Hon. 

 Secretary of the Union (Mr. A. K. Haagner) and Mr. L. E. 

 Taylor of Irene. This loan collection attracted considerable 

 attention. 



(5) The number of Members of the Union at the date of 

 the Second Annual General Meeting was eighty. 



(G) At the August (1905) Meeting of the Johannesburg 

 Field Naturalists' (ylub, Mr. A. Duncan read an interesting 

 paper entitled " Aviary Notes." He described the moult and 

 winter plumage of the Widow Birds, and exhibited a living 

 male of Coliopasser alhonotatus (White-winged AVidow Bird) 

 in winter plumage. He also described the moult of Quelea 

 (juelea (Red-billed Weaver) and expressed the opinion that 

 the existence as a subspecies of Quelea quelea 7^ussi fRuss' 

 Weaver) was not justified, owing to the great variation in 

 ])lumage of Q. <juelea, ranging from one extreme to the 

 other. 



(7) At the October (11M)5) Meeting of the same Society 

 Mr. F. J. Ellemor read a paper entitled "Notes on the Birds 

 of the Bezuidenhout's Valley, Johannesburg." He referred 

 to o7 species, including Sa.vicola plleata (('apj)ed Wheatear), 

 Amj/drus morlo (Red-winged Starling), and Geocolaptes 

 oliraccus (Ground Woodpecker). His earliest date for eggs 

 of Motacilla capensis (('ape Wagtail) was July 7th, which is 

 extremely early for this district. 



