THE IBIS. 



NEW SERIES. 



No. XIV. APRIL 1868. 



XII. — Notes on Mr. Layard's 'Birds of South Africa.' 

 By J. H. GuRNEY, F.Z.S. 



(Plate IV.) 



Mr. Layard, whose very interesting observations on the Birds 

 of Ceylon* will be fresh in the recollection of many ornitholo- 

 gical students, has again done excellent service to the cause of 

 science by the publication of a ' Descriptive Catalogue of the 

 Birds of South Africa/ which must prove a most useful book of 

 reference to all who desire to investigate the ornithology of that 

 region, whilst the very valuable, though succinct, information 

 which it contains as to the habits of many of the species enume- 

 rated will doubtless also render it attractive to all lovers of 

 birds and of that bird-life which is equally full of interest in 

 every quarter of the globe. 



Mr. Layard having limited his labours to those species which 

 have been recorded as occurring south of the twenty-eighth par- 

 allel of south latitude, his Catalogue does not include many 

 interesting birds which, though occurring in Damara Land and 

 Great Namaqua Land, have not been observed south of those 



• Published in the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History ' be- 

 tween 1851 and 1854, 2nd series, vols, vii., ix., xi.-xiv. 



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