THE JOURNAL 



OF THE 



SOUTH AFRICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' ONION. 



Vol. VI. AUGUST 1910. No. 1. 



l.—Miffratio7i Beport 1908-1909. 

 The Committee for Migration present herewith one report 

 for the years 1908 and 1909. 



In doing so we have to apologize to our European colleagues 

 for the paucity of the observations. In a country like South 

 Africa, where the population is thinly distributed over a vast 

 area, it is almost hopeless to expect much better results 

 until the teachers and older scholars of the country schools 

 know more about Natural Histoi'y and take more interest in 

 it. Most of our Members are busy men living in towns, 

 where it is not easy to locate the first arrivals. It is there- 

 fore hoped that a properly illustrated pamphlet will be 

 circulated amongst the country schools at no very distant 

 date, in order to enlist the practical sympathy of the teachers. 

 At present it is difficult for them to distinguish even the com- 

 moner birds, local names being so misleading in South Africa; 

 we can therefore only offer the following data to our brother 

 ornithologists on the other side of the water, leaving them to 

 work out what little can be deduced when incorporated with 

 their own reports. It is pleasing to note that the practical 

 experiment of " ringing " White Storks has met with such 

 excellent results, ten ringed Storks having been procured in 

 South Africa up to date. More details will be found further 

 on in this number. 



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