118 Occasional Notes. 



One has nested in my cattle-kraal in a hollow tree, 6 feet 

 from the gromid, in November (latter part), laid three eggs 

 about the size of a Robin's, white with red spots ; nest merely 

 consists of bottom of hole lined with white and grey cow- 

 hairs. Two young just hatched out four days old. 



Why should the bird choose light-coloured hair from my 

 cattle when most of the herd are black and red cows, only a 

 few light coloured ones ? J. C. Ingle. 



P.O. Sabi, Dist. Lydenburg, 

 Dec. 9t]i, 1908. 



16. Frigate Bird at Bloemfontein, O.R.C. — A male 

 Frigate Bird {Fregata aquila) was shot in Bloemfontein 

 District the other day, which seems to me somewhat unusual, 

 as the consensus of opinion seems to be that this bird is a 

 true pelagic species, or at any rate oceanic. 



C McG. Johnston. 



Bloemfontein, 

 Feb. 5th, 1909. 



17. White-breasted Duikers Nesting in the O.R.C. — 

 On September the 14:th I shot a pair of White-breasted 

 Cormorants (Plialacrocorax lucidus) on Wonderkop Dam, 

 the property of Mr, Chas. Newbury. I also found two nests 

 contidning four eggs each. The eggs of one clutch were 

 ready for hatching, several being actually chipped, so they 

 must have been laid in August, a fact worth recording, as 

 Sparrow took eggs in May. K. Cowper Johnson. 



AVestminster, O.R.C. 



18. Yellow Wagtail at Port Elizabeth. — To-day 

 (20.4.09) my taxidermist, Mr. W. Hodges, shot a specimen 

 of Ray's Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla campestris) on the 

 Humewood Beach at Port Elizabeth. It was in company 

 of several Cape ^Vagtails. The sex is female. It is being- 

 mounted for our collection. I believe there is no previous 

 record of it having occurred in Cape Colony. 



F. W\ FiTzSiMONS, Director, Port Elizabeth Museum. 

 Port Elizabeth, April 20th, 1909. 



