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2. Tlie Aquila : Organ of the Royal Hnnf/arian Central 

 Bureau of OvJiitJiologi/. Edited by Dr. Otto Herman. 



We have received vol. xvi. o£ 1909, and it teems with 

 interesting matter. Of most interest to us is an account of 

 the accomplishments of the Royal Hungarian Bureau by its 

 veteran Director, Dr. Herman, which includes an account of 

 the ringing experiment of the White Stork and its first 

 result in South Africa, viz. the bird shot in Polela, Natal. 

 This is accompanied by a sketch-map showing the bird's 

 flight from Hungary to South Africa. Dr. Herman also 

 gives excerpts of our first migration report. Following this 

 " sketch" is an " In Memoriam " of the late Professor Newton, 

 including the correspondence between the revered ornitho- 

 logist and Dr. Herman. This is succeeded by a comparison 

 of species observed in Western Liberia and Africa by Dr. 

 Finsch. The bulk of the volume is, however, naturally 

 given to the 15th Annual Report of the Bureau on the 

 Migration in Hungary during the spring of 1908. This is 

 illustrated by very clear plates — both coloured and plain — 

 of some of the species. An account of the ringing of birds 

 with a list of the stations, &c.^ by Jakob Schenck, is also 

 worthy of our study. 



3. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, vol. xxiv. 



Report on the immigrations of summer residents in the 

 spring of 1908. &c. Few birds in this, the 4th Report of 

 the Migration Committee of the British Ornithologists' Club, 

 are of interest to the South African ornithologists. We 

 notice the date of the earliest Spotted Flycatcher is April 

 27th. Th? Pretoria Zoo was full of these birds the first 

 week in March, but by the IGth the majority of them 

 had departed. The earliest date given for the Red-backed 

 Shrike is 21st April, and that of the European Cuckoo as 

 April 1st. 



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