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Pirie by Miss Fanny Ross on October 4. A long interval 

 ensued before others were reported. On November 29 they 

 were seen near Lovedale by Miss Betty Henderson, and on 

 December 4 they were met with by Mr. D. A. Hunter 

 between Lovedale and the Hogsback. At Somerville the 

 birds were common enough from the time of our arrival on 

 January 7. 



At Pirie, where there is such an extensive forest and also 

 wide mimosa-tracts, the White Storks roost in trees, but at 

 Somerville, even though there are still large enough patches 

 of forests on the mountain-sides, the Storks prefer to roost 

 among the inequalities of the tremendous dongas that form 

 such a feature in the landscape. 



Readers may remember that reference has been made 

 occasionally to the clappering of the Storks, and that obser- 

 vations were asked for in this connection. One day I 

 chanced to be giving an object-lesson on the Stork to the 

 school-children at Somerville, and I found that the children 

 could imitate the sound from their having heard it in the 

 dongas already referred to. 



At Somerville two Storks were observed walking in the 

 smoko of some burning grass on March 23, and that same 

 evening a number were observed at their roosting-place in 

 one of the dongas. My wife saw the last belated individual 

 pass the window on April 8. 



Much more information regarding the movements of the 

 Northern Waders has come to hand this year than in any 

 previous year. Mr. John Wood, of East London, informed 

 me that Mr. Center and he obtained a Little Stint at East 

 London on Septendjer 11, and that thereafter they obtained 

 a number of other specimens. Towards the end of November 

 I had an opportunity of handling about half-a-dozen speci- 

 mens obtained by the.'e gentlemen, and on three different 

 occasions I met with the species myself at the mouth of the 

 Blind River. When we remember that the breedino;-(Tround& 

 of the Little Stint are in the extreme north of Europe and 



