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required — the main reason of this being to ensure accuracy 

 in the determination of the species by the uninitiated. 

 This was carried with a rider that the other Museums be 

 requested to do hkewise in their respective Colonies. 



Accounts. — The Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for 

 the past year, duly audited by Messrs. Langford & King, was 

 passed. A copy follows this account of the Meeting. 



The Secretary's Report was read and passed. 



The Report follows : — 



Secretary's Report. 



The last Meeting of the S. A. 0. U. was held, as you are 

 all aware, at Grahamstown, in conjunction with that of 

 the S. A. A. A. S., between the dates of 6th and 12th Jnly, 

 1908, under the Presidency of Dr. J. E. Duerden, M.Sc, 

 Professor of Zoology, Rhodes University College, 



Tiiis was ati exceedingly successful meeting — so much 

 so that it was decided to re[)eat the experiment this year 

 and hold our meeting at Bloemfontein, again in conjunction 

 with that of the S. A. A. A. S. 



Publications — Last year (1908) the Union issued three 

 numbers of the Journal, containing 149 pp. letterpress, and 

 1 coloured and 5 photographic plates. This year two 

 numbers have been issued up to date, containing 121 pp. 

 letterpress and one hand-coloured lithographic plate. 

 The third and final No., to comj)letc Vol. V., will appear 

 shortly. 



Besides the Journal, No. 1 of the ' Popular Bulletins ' 

 (South African Birds of Prey, in relation to Man) was 

 published last year and No. 2 (a Short History of Orni- 

 thology, with special reference to South Africa) this year 

 — both by the Hon. Secretary. 



Migration Sm'vey, — The First Report, published in the 

 2nd No. of Vol. IV. (October 1908), was very favourably 

 received and commented upon by our European colleagues, 

 notwithstanding the paucity of the data. The Report of 

 1908 and 1909 will appear in the first part of Vol. VI. ; and 

 while the number of observations have increased, I have 



