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a book on the ' Game-Birds and Water-Fowl of South 

 Africa/ which was illustrated by C. G. Davies of the 

 C.M.R. While in South Africa, after the Boer War, he 

 was stationed at Bloemfontein and at Potchefstroom, and 

 was known to a number of local residents as a keen orni- 

 thologist and excellent sportsman. To the members of his 

 family we extend our heart-felt sympathy. 



XIV. — Slwrt Notices of Ornithological Publications. 



4. ' The Ibis ' : a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. April, 

 July, and October, 1915. 



The April number contains part 1 of a paper on the 

 Ornithology of the Matopo District, S. Rhodesia, by 

 L. Beresford Mouritz, which is of considerable interest. 

 It gives us a list of the birds procured or observed, with 

 excellent field-notes on their habits ; and in many instances 

 the Sindabele (native) name for the species is appended. 

 The concluding portion (part 2) appears in the July number. 

 Mr. C. H. B. Grant continues his paper on the collection of 

 birds from British East Africa and Uganda presented to 

 the British Museum by Capt. G. Cozens, with field-notes by 

 the collector, Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe, part 2 being in the 

 April number and part 3 in the July number — bringing 

 the paper up to the end of the Woodpeckers, and making 

 212 species and subspecies in all. Eleven new subspecies 

 ^re described in the July number, and text-figures are given 

 of the short-crested and long-crested Turacus groups (i. e., 

 T. livingstonii and T. schalowii). The specific name of the 

 Diedric or Golden Cuckoo is changed from cupreus (i\a^ 

 liame being allocated to the Emerald Cuckoo) to caprius, on 

 account of this being the spelling employed by Boddaert. 

 AVhut guarantee has the author of this change of name — that 

 the name as spelled on d'Aubenton's plate is not a misprint, 

 anil should have read cupreus in any case ? This everlasting 

 cluingitig of names on slender evidence, or (like the present 



