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CONTENTS. 



General Notices. Inside Front Page Wra^jper. 

 Frontispiece. 

 Editorial Note. 



Papers :— Pagk 



VI. Notes on the Water-Birds of tlie Zwaartkops River, Port Elizabeth, 



Cape Colony. By J.^mes G. Brown. (Plate: Frontispiece) 39 



VII. A further Contribution to the Ornithology of Modderfonteir., Transvaal. 

 By Alwin K. Haagnuu, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. [Supplementary to 

 three papers previously published: q. v. Ibis, 19U1, pp. 15 & 190; 



ibid. 1902, p. 669.] •1'^ 



VIII. Notes on the Genus Tyroinelana (Bishop Birds), with reference in 

 particular to the Seasonal Changes of Plumage and Nidification in 



Captivity of P. orijx (Red Bishop Bird). By A. Duncan r»7 



Plate IV. .S/W.r ra^jmsis (Grass Owl). R. H. Ivy To face 43 



Plate V. Turacus corythaix (Knysna Plantain Eater or Lourie) with Nest 



and Eggs. R. H. Ivv To face (U 



Obituary : — Carlo "Freiherr" von Erlanger 01 



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Editorial Notices. Inside Back Page Wrapper. 



List of Officers of the Union. Outside Back Page Wrap^jer. 



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