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In concluding my ornithological journal I wish to be 

 all <j wed to offer my best thanks to Lord Crawford for his 

 very great kindness in taking me with him, as Naturalist, 

 during his journey round the world. It is obvious that on 

 a voyage of this sort opportunities for collecting on land 

 must be few and often hurried. If the result, as regards 

 birds, appears to be rather meagre, I can only say that I did 

 my best on every possible occasion. The number of speci- 

 mens of birds obtained during the voyage was 225, all of 

 which have been presented by Lord Crawford to the British 

 Museum. The skins were made by my own hands, and 

 labelled with date and locality. I have determined them 

 mainly by comparison with specimens already in the 

 National Collection, and hereby offer my very best thanks 

 to Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, and their excellent 

 assistant Mr. Charles Chubb for the kind aid which they 

 rendered me throughout. 



IV. — On the Breeding of some of the Waterfowl at Gooilust 

 in the Year 1903. By F. E. Blaauw, C.M.Z.S. 



Although the summer as well as the greater part of the 

 spring of the year 1903 have been unusually damp and 

 cold, yet waterfowl have bred well, and their chicks have 

 nearly all survived. The first birds to breed at Gooilust 

 were, as usual, the Cereopsis Geese (Cereopsis nova-hollandue) . 

 Thev are kept in a six-acre enclosure, in which some Sunda 

 oxen (Bos sondaicus) and antelopes [Damalis albifrom) 

 are confined during the summer months, both being the re- 

 spectful servants of the Geese. In the beginning of February 

 the male (which is a great nest-builder for a Goose) made a 

 rather elaborate structure on a heap of straw lying against 

 the south side of a brick building which houses the above- 

 named ruminants during the winter. The female laid five 

 eggs and sat on them with great assiduity, notwithstanding 

 occasional frost and snow. All the time the male kept a 

 sharp look-out, and always stood over the nest whilst the 



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