Vol. V. No. 1. APEIL 1909. Price 6s. Od. 



T.HE JOURNAL 



OF THE 



SOUTH nici oiiTUOwisTS' ymoii. 



EDITED BY 



All WIN HAAGNER, P.Z.S., 



Dr. J. W. B. GUNNING and B. C. K. LANGPORD. 



CONTENTS. 



Pa«f. 



I. Account of Fifth Annual General Meeting 1 



II. Presidential Address. (Abstract.) By J. E. Duerden, Ph.D. &c 5 



III A Note on the Black-faced Love-Bird (^^oj^onns we^jv^raw). By Alwin 



HaaGnee. F.Z.S. &c. (Plate 1.) 16 



IV. Observations on Migratory Birds at Komatipoort. By IVIajor J. Steven- 

 son Hamilton, Supt. Sabi Game Eeserves 19 



V. Pyrontelana ori/x and its Nesting Parasites. By Rev. Noel Eoberts 22 



VI A List of. and Notes on, Birds collected and observed in the District of 



Beira, Portuguese S.E. Africa. By P. A. Siiei-pard 24 



VII. Occasional Notes • ^*-^ 



VIII. Short Notices of Ornithological Publications ^^t> 



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