112 Occasional Notes. 



7, The following appeared in the Union Gazette, under 

 date April 5th, 1915 :— 



* No. 20 (Administrator's), 1915.] 



PROCLAMATION 



By the Honourable the Administrator of the 

 Province of Transvaal. 



UjS'DER and by virtue of the powers vested in me and the 

 Executive Committee by sub-section (/) of section tliree of the 

 Game Preservation Ordinance 1905 as amended by the Game 

 Preservation Further Amendment Act 1909 and section eiglity-one 

 of the South Africa Act 1909 I do hereby prochaim, declare and 

 make known that the birds described in the Schedule hereto shall, 

 on account of their general utility be protected and not be hunted 

 or destroyed in all districts of the Transvaal Province as from the 

 date hereof. 



Proclamation No. 14 (Administration) of 1910 shall be and is 

 hereby cancelled. 



God Save the King. 



Given under my Hand at Pretoria this Sixth day of April On e 

 Thousand Nine hundred and Fifteen. 



JOHANN RISSIK, 

 Administrator of the Province of Transvaal. 



SCHEDULE. 

 General Utility Birds and Locfst Destrotees. 



English Common Dutch Common Scientific N^omen- 



Nomenclature. H^omenclature. clature. 



Stork, white-bellied Grote zwarte spriukhaan- Abdima abdimi. 



vogel 



Stork, white Grote witte spriukhaan- Ciconia cicouia. 



vogcl 



Starling, wattled Leispreeuw Perissornis carunculatus. 



Egret, buff-backed Bosluisvogel Bubulcus ibis. 



f'Roller, European Kleine trouwpand Coracias garrulus. 



j (blue jay) 



Roller, racquet- Breedstaart trouwpand ... Coracias spatulatus. 

 y ^ J tailed 



^^'^1 Roller, Mosili- Trouwpand Coracias candatus. 



katza's 



I Roller, purple Grote trouwpand Coracias mozambicus. 



(^Roller, cinnamon . . . Geelbek trouwpand Eury stomus afer. 



All birds belonging to the families Oedicnemidae, Glareolidae, 



