Vol. XI. No. 1. DECEMBER 1915. Price 7s. 



THE JOURNAL 



■ OF THE 



EDITED BY 



A. K. HAAGNER, F.Z.S., 



Col. Member British Ornithologists' Union; 

 Hon. Mem. Royal Hungarian Bureau of Ornithology, 



AND 



B. C. R. LANGFORD. 



CONTENTS. 



I. The Birds of Pliilipstown, Cape Province, with Notes on their Habits. 



By H. Leighton Hare '■ 



II. Ornitbologieal Notes from Natal. By E. C. Chubb, Curator, Durban 



Museum • 



III. The Curlew in South Africa. By John Wood 20 



IV. Eemarks upon some widely distributed Groups of Birds containing 



distinctive Family Traits. By Ambrose A. Lane 25 



Y. Birds of the Kaffrarian Frontier. By Fk.vnk A. O. Pym, Curator, King 



Williams Town Museum 29 



VI. Birds in Relation to their Prey : Experiments on Wood-Hoopoes, Small 

 Hornbills. and a Babbler. By C. F. M. Swynnerton, F.L.S., F.E.S., 



CM.B.O.U ^^2 



VII. Occasional Notes • •■ 1^^ 



VIII. Short Notices of Ornithological Publications 112 



IX. Proceedings of the Union 114 



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