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Mr. R. T. N. flumes, of Silverton, has since infoinu'd me 

 that he has seen a white Swallow at the same spot ; but 

 though I have passed it several times since, I have not seen 

 the bird again. F. Yaughan Kikbv. 



Prelorin, 



9. 2. IJ. 



4. Notes feom East London. — During the last year 

 or .so I have been giving some little attention to the notes 

 and calls of birds. Those that puzzle me seem rather to 

 increase than diminish in number : our thick busli often 

 stands in the way of one making certain. 



Yesterday I was watching the antics of a Blue Crane 

 {T. paradisea) in our Public Park. He knows me well, 

 and as usual greeted me with his screaming croak ; but 

 when I had strolled away thirty yards, I was surprised 

 to hear coming from him a short churring sound, suggestive 

 of that the Nightjar produces, but, of course, ever so much 

 deeper, though by no means loud. He stood fixedly gazing 

 after me, and holding his bill a little bit up, whilst he 

 expressed himself in that, to me, unusual manner. 



I have been assured by two different farmers of late that 

 })oth the " Piet-mijn-vrouw" Cuckoo [Cucidvs clamosus) and 

 the Bromvogel {Bucorax cafer) may be occasionally heard 

 calling well on towards midnight. There was a case under 

 mv notice recently in which the Black-and-White Cuckoo 

 {Clamator jacoUmis) laid its egg in the nest of the Cape 

 Wagtail. John \Yood. 



East London, C.C., 

 10. 12. 10. 



5. Obituary ; Dk. J. B. Greathead. — Those members 

 of the Union who had the good fortune to know tiie late 

 Dr. J. B. Greathead, of " Greystone,^^ Grahamstown, will 

 be grieved to hear of his death at the age of 54. He had 

 retired and taken a farm called " Yanwj-ksfonlein."' near 

 Norvals Pont, in the Northern Cape Colony. 



