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of the birds observed by him on the Orange River, which we have 
had great pleasure in including in our “ Appendix.” In 1882 
three very important memoirs on South Africa appeared. One 
of these, by Captain Shelley, contains an account of the birds 
collected by Mr. Jameson, in his expedition to Mashoona Land, 
with excellent field-notes by that veteran naturalist Mr. T. Ayres. 
A second paper by Majors Butler, Feilden, and Captain Reid, 
published in the Zoologist, gives an account of their ornithological 
collections made in the upper districts of Natal; while Dr. Holub 
and Herr yon Pelzeln published, under the title of ‘ Beitriage zur 
Ornithologie Siid-Afrikas,” a very elaborate work of 385 pages, 
profusely illustrated with plates and woodcuts, principally of the 
nests and osteology of South African birds. 
We must not omit to mention the excellent paper by Sir John 
Kirk on the birds of the Zambesi region, published in the Ibis 
for 1864; while a vast amount of useful information will be found 
in the “ Végel Ost-Afrikas,”’ written by Drs. Finsch and Hartlaub, 
in 1870. In this work are enumerated all the species collected by 
Dr. Peters during his expedition to Eastern Africa, the descriptions 
of which are spread over several years of the “ Journal fiir Orni- 
thologie.” 
Besides the elaborate work of Mr. C. J. Andersson on the 
birds of Damara Land, the late Mr. Monteiro made important 
collections in Benguela and Angola. His work as a pioneer has 
been, however, largely supplemented by the vigorous efforts of 
Senor Anchieta, a Portuguese naturalist, who has travelled exten- 
sively for the Lisbon Museum in the provinces of Mossamedes and 
Benguela, and who penetrated to the Cunene River, a locality 
reached by Mr. Andersson shortly before his death. More than 
twenty elaborate papers by Professor Barboza du Bocage have 
been published on the collections which Senor Anchieta sent to 
Europe, and recently a large work on the ornithology of Angola 
