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Sula capensis Layard. These gannets were seen in plenty along the west coast, 

 and some on the 23rd May, after the Scotia had left for St Helena. 



A single specimen of the Lesser Double-collared Sunbird, Cinnyiis chalybeus (L.), 

 is also in the collection, labelled " Cape Town." It is a species which is common over 

 the greater part of Cape Colony. 



Two papers on Saldanha Bay and its Bird- Islands, by W. L. Sclater, have appeared 

 in Tlie Ibis (1896, p. 519, and 1904, p. 79). 



