Vol. I. No. 1. 



JULY 1905. 



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THE JOURNAL 



OF THE 



CONTENTS. 



Page 

 Frontispiece. 



Preface i 



Remarks relating to the Formation of the Union ill 



Proceedings of the Union :^ 



Report of First Annual Meeting vi 



Rules of the Union vii 



List of OtRcers and Members x 



Report of Special General Meeting xiv 



Papers :— 



I. Address delivered by the Cliairman at Inaugural Meeting 1 



II. Supplementary Notes on tlie Nesting-Habits and Eggs of certain 

 South African Birds described in Stark and Sclater's 'South African 

 Fauna' (Birds, vols, i., ii., and iii.). By Richard Sparrow, 

 M.B.O.U., Major 7th Dragoon Guards. (Comnuuiicated to and 

 prepared for publication by Mr. A. Haagner ; with some Notes by 



tlie latter.) (Plates I. & II.) 9 



III. Notes on the Nest and Eggs of Coliopasser ardcns (Red-collared 



Widow Bird). By F. J. Elle.mok. (Plate III.) 18 



IV. Birds collected and observed around Hanover, Cape Colony, from 



July liOth to the end of September 1903. By Guy C. Siiortkidgk . 18 



V. A Visit to a Breeding Colony of Ibis (Bthiopica (Sacred Ibis). By 



AusiN Roberts 32 



Obituary : — Mr. Johann van Oosterzee Marais, M.B.O.U 33 



Occasional Notes 34 



Notices :— 



General 37 



Editorial .'itf 



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