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fi;enenil interest, systematically extracted in the pages of this 

 .lournnl. 



New Ornithological publications of specific local character 

 will also be separately reviewed by a competent staff of 

 abstractors. 



A list of the Ornithological additions to the Transvaal 

 Zoological Gardens will also be published, and a special 

 column will be devoted to answers to enquiries and general 

 local correspondence. 



(15) In the June, 1907, number of this Journal, it is 

 hoped to publish the first of a series of papers descriptive of 

 the unique collection of South African Birds' Eggs in the 

 possession of the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, by Messrs. 

 John A. Buckuill and C. B. Horsbruoh. 



(16) Mr. L. E. Taylor, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., writes :—" 1 

 have been struck lately in reading through vol. iv. (Sclater's 

 ' Birds S. Africa') with the very scanty information which is 

 given of the distribution of birds in South Africa. I think 

 that our Union ought to endeavour to collect more informa- 

 tion on the subject, in the same way as the botanists are doing 

 with plants. 1 would like to suggest that the matter should 

 be brought up at the next Annual Meeting, and that a 

 circular should be sent to every member asking him to 

 compile a list of the birds in his district or wherever he has 

 a chance of making observations. One member or a com- 

 mittee might be appointed for each Colony to tabulate the 

 results, and a further committee might later on work on the 

 determination of the ornithological regions for the whole of 

 South Africa. Care would have to be taken that the exact 

 localities should be carefully noted, otherwise it would be 

 difficult to define the various regions: e. <j., a man workino- in 

 Pretoria would probably note the birds on the north side of 

 the Magaliesberg and also beyond Irene, and if the locality 

 was simply given as Pretoria there would be no means of 

 defining the great boundary line which exists in the Magalies- 

 berg Range. The nature of the country would also be very 



