118 Occasional Notes. 



and leisure, to expend upon his harmless and liel])less 

 victims his barharons, inherent desire to kill in response to 

 instinctive promptings. 



No member of that doomed race ever flies forth in the 

 morning with any certainty that it will return, for there is 

 always the man with the gun waging war against it, and his 

 instrument of destruction annihilates space and is beyond 

 the power of escape. 



It is the nature of infamies, as well as diseases, whose 

 progress is not checked, to daily grow worse; and if this 

 wasteful and depraved practice of killing birds wholesale is 

 not checked there will be wrought a mischief, a universal 

 disease, more far-reaching than words can express. 



XIV. — Occasional N^ofes. 



5. Bird Migration in South Africa. — In accordance 

 with the resolution passed at the last Annual General 

 Meeting, to the eftect that an attemj)t be nuide to infuse a 

 little more interest as regards Bird Migration, the Council 

 desire the Members of the S.A.O.U. — and others willing — to 

 undertake a few simple observations during each year. 

 We a]){)eal especially to the school teachers, for whom 

 we have now created an associate membership paying a 

 uominul subscri{>tion of half a guinea per annum, which 

 covers receipt of Journal, Pcjpuhir Bulletin, and any other 

 publication which might be issued. The Transvaal Education 

 Dept. I'.ave been good enough to have a series of wall-pictures 

 priute<l depicting some of the more interesting birds, so that 

 identification of some of the following will be now com- 

 paratively easy. 



You are asked to look out for the arrival and deparlure of 

 any or all of tlx.- undernoted kinds : — 



1. Eviioi'KAN Ukk-kater (McrojK apifistd). 



2. Ked-lkggki) Ivk.strkl ('J'. vespertimiH). 



3. European .Swallow {Ilirundo rmlica). 



4. Golden OniOLE {Oriylus yalhula). 



5. Lesser J^estrel {'liiuiunciilus nauiiiainii). 



