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the legs behind. I was told that they stayed in the water 

 all night, and that they could then be easily approached and 

 shot ; certainly during the day it was impossible to get any- 

 where near them. Both species (Phcenicopterus roseus and 

 P. minor) are said to be found in Saldanha Bay. The birds 

 which I saw seemed to me to be of the larger species, but it was 

 difficult to be certain as I could not get sufficiently close. 

 The Flamingos do not breed at Saldanha Bay, but migrate 

 northwards, probably to Lake Ngami and other marshy 

 lakes in German South-west Africa ; in October, however, 

 there are always a few to be found about the lagoon. 



The following day the weather was not very favourable 

 for excursions, and I did not go far from the hotel. On 

 the day after, when I returned to Cape Town, the weather 

 still continued stormy and unpleasant, though it did not 

 affect the steamer much, as the wind blew directly from the 

 north in a direction favourable to our course. 



In a former paper (Ibis, 1896, p. 519), containing a 

 description of a visit to Dassen Island, I gave some account of 

 the guano islands and of their administration by the Colonial 

 Government. Perhaps I may supplement this with a few 

 additional facts and figures chiefly derived from the Report 

 of the Superintendent of the island, Captain Jackson, for 

 last year (1902). 



On p. 87 is given a list of the islands and the yield of guano 

 and Penguins' eggs during the year in question, commencing 

 at Port Elizabeth and passing along the coast to the Ichaboe 

 Group off German South-west Africa. 



VII. — On further Collections of Birds from the Efulen 

 District of Cameroon, West Africa*. By R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, LL.D. &c— Part I. 



(Plate II.) 



Mr. G. L\ Bates has sent us further collections from Efulen, 



* [See ' Ibis,' 1902, p. 89, for an account of the previous collection and 

 for information on the locality. Efulen is a village in the German colony 

 of " Kamerun," about forty miles from the Port, Great Batanga. — Edd.] 



