THE I B I S 



EIGHTH SERIES. 



No. XIII. JANUARY 1901. 



I. — On a Collection of Birds from the District of Deelfontein 

 in Cape Colony. ' By R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D. &c. 



Part I. 



For the very interesting collection of birds here described 

 the British Museum is indebted to Coloned A. T. Sloggett, 

 C.M.G., who was the Principal Medical Officer of the Imperial 

 Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein during the Boer war. 

 The actual collection was made by two taxidermists of our 

 Museum, E. C. H. Seimund and C. H. B. Grant, who served 

 as troopers in the Yeomanry and helped Colonel Sloggett 

 to provide that excellent menagerie which was a source of 

 amusement and instruction to the sick and wounded men at 

 the Deelfontein hospital. After the conclusion of the war, 

 many of the living animals were sent home to the Zoological 

 Society's Gardens by Colonel Sloggett, and the fine collec- 

 tions of preserved mammals and birds were presented by 

 him to the British Museum. 



Seimund volunteered for the front at the beginning of 

 the war, and fought for about eight months with Colonel 

 Pilcher's column. Being at last struck down by enteric 

 fever, he was sent to the Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein, 

 where, on becoming convalescent, he turned his attention to 



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