THE JOURNAL 



OF THE 



SODTH AFRICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 



Vol. VII. DECEMBER 1911. No. 2. 



VIII. — jVotes on a Collectmi of Birds in the Transvaal 

 Miiseinn from Boroi\ Fortuguese Ecist Africa. By AuSTlN 

 liOBERTS. 



Members of our Union have already been made acquainted 

 with some of the birds collected by Mr, F. Vau^han Kirby 

 and myself, by their inclusion in the Check-list recently 

 issued by the Director of the Transvaal Museum (Dr. J. W. B. 

 Gunning) and the Hon. Secretary of our Union (Mr. A. K. 

 Haagner), In these notes I propose to detail the collection 

 with notes on observations made in the field, and give a short 

 account of the nature of Boror territory. 



Boror is situated midway between Quelimane, a port on 

 the Quaqua Iliver, and the southern strip of Nyassaland. To 

 reach this District, or Frazo as it is locally called, we pro- 

 ceeded by a Portuguese mail-lx)at leaving Lourenoo Marques 

 on the 16th April, 1908, touched at the ports of Inhambane, 

 Bartholomeu de Diaz, and Beira eyi route, and landed at 

 Quelimane on the 21st. Here we were delayed for a few 

 days until the necessary permits to proceed inland and shoot 

 could be obtained. Our destination was Villa Pereira, but 

 at that season the country was so swamped by the summer 

 rains that it was impossible to get there by the most direct 

 road, and we found it necessary to make a Avidc circuit vid 



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