THE JOURNAL 



OF THE 



SOUTH AFRICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 



Vol. VII. JULY 1911. No. 1. 



I. — On some J^ests and Eggs from Mount Cliirhula, 

 Southern Rhodesia. By C. F. M. Swynnerton, F.L.IS., 

 Col.M.B.O.U. With Field-notes hg the Collector, D. P. J. 

 Odendaal. 



During my absence from the country, from April 1907 to 

 October 1908, Mr. D. P. J. Odendaal, who took my place, 

 and whom I have already had occasion (' Ibis,' 1908, p. 5) 

 to thank for much valuable help rendered previously in this 

 connection, got together for me a collection of about GOO 

 bird-skins and a nnmber of interestino- nests and cirss (identi- 

 fying by shooting or trapping at the nests), together with 

 many excellent field-notes. The following pages are de- 

 scriptive of the eggs and of such nests as remain. Unfor- 

 tunately, rats have eaten their way into two of the nior<! 

 important boxes, with the result that many nests, skins, and 

 labels have been destroyed. 



I have not checked the egg-measurements, which are 

 Odendaal's. With regard to the detail with which I have 

 described the nests and the various clutches, I feel disposed 

 to make no apology, however wearisome such detail may be : 

 for I feel that we should aim at placing ourselves in the 

 position of the Collector in Europe, the man who can with a 

 good deal of certainty recognize the eggs or nests of the vast 



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