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or destro3-ed in all districts of the Transvaal Province as from the 

 date hereof and shall be added to tlie list of general utility birds 

 and locust destroyers prescribed by Proclamation (Administrators) 

 No. 20 of 1915. 



God Save the King. 



Given under my Hand at Pretoria this Twenty-second day of 

 December One thousand Nine hundred and Fifteen. 



JOHANN RISSIK, 

 Administrator of the Province of Transvaal. 



SCHEDULE. 

 General Utility Birds. 



English Common Scictitijic Nomen- 

 Nomenclatnre. clature. 



Bustard, bush Otis ruticrista. 



Bustard, Natal Otis harrovi. 



Bustard, blue • Otis caerulescens. 



Bustard, vaal Otis vigorsi. 



Bustard, white-quilled or cackling Otis afroides. 



Bustard, black-bellied or silent .; Otis melaiiogaster. 



Bustard, Lud wig's Otis ludvigi. 



Bustard Stanley Otis cafra. 



Bustard kori Otis kori. 



XIII. — Obituary . 



Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Boyd Robeet 

 HoRSBRUGH, A.S.C., died on July 11 at Oxted, aged 44. 

 He was the eldest son o£ the late Captain Charles Bell 

 Horsbrugh, Central India Horse, and entered the Army in 

 1893, saw service in Sierra Leone in 1898-9 (medal with 

 clasp), and for service in the South African War received 

 the Queen's and the King's medals with five clasps. He had 

 been promoted major in 1908^ and was made temporary 

 lieutenant-colonel in August, 1915, when he went to the 

 front in command of a divisional train. He was present at 

 the battle of Loos, and was mentioned in dispatches. 

 Colonel Horsbrugh was a well-known ornithologist, a 

 member of the British and Soulh African Ornithologists' 

 Unions, and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He was 

 the author oF several papers on South African birds and 



