PREFACE. 



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With this, the concluding number of Volume VIII. 

 we must express regret that more material has not 

 been available. We are sure there must be more of 

 our Members who have interesting information to 

 communicate, if only they will do so. 



It is not enough for Members, however keen, to 

 take a mere personal interest in Ornithology. If 

 they will not record the results of their observations 

 for their brother Members, the " Union" is a Union 

 in name only. 



We are pleased to be able to state that the Trans- 

 vaal Department of Education, as the result of 

 representations by the S.A.O.U., have had coloured 

 wall-pictures prepared of the more useful and inter- 

 esting native birds, which it is hoped will soon appear 

 in the schools. This cannot fail to be beneficial, as 

 when the children are made famihar with the birds 

 and their place in nature it will rouse interest in 

 their feathered friends. 



THE EDITORS. 



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