APPENDIX 



SOUTH AFRICAN BIRDS 

 (Families as per Gunning and Haagner 1910) 



CLASS AVES 



Sub-class RAT IT M (no keel to breast bone) 

 Order STRUTHIONES 

 Family STRUTHIONID,E 



GENUS SPECIES ENGLISH AND 



S.A. DUTCH NAMES 



Struthio australis Southern Ostrich 



(Struisvogel) 



Sub-class CARINAT& (keel to breast bone) 



Order IMPENNES 

 Family SPHENISCID^ 



Spheniscus demersus Jackass Penguin 



(Penguin) 



Order PYGOPODES 

 Family COLYMBID^ 



Colymbus cristatus Crested Grebe 



(Zanddrijver) 

 nigricellis Eared Grebe 



(Kleine Zanddrijver) 



,, capensis Cape Dabchick 



(Duikertje) 



BOOK III 129 I 



