T HE IBIS 



EIGHTH SERIES. 



No. XIV. APRIL 1901. 



XII. — On a Collection of Birds from the Neighbourhood of 

 Port St. Johns, in Pondoland. By Guy C. Short- 

 ridge. With a Preface and Notes by W. L. Sclater, 

 Director of the South African Museum. 



[So far as I am aware, no collections have hitherto been 

 made in the district of Pondoland, which forms the most 

 easterly portion of Cape Colony, and adjoins Natal. 



At rny suggestion, therefore, Mr. Guy Shortridge proceeded 

 to Port St. Johns, which is situated at the mouth of the 

 St. Johns River, and spent the greater part of a year there, 

 making, on behalf of the South African Museum, extensive 

 collections in Natural History, chiefly of birds and mammals, 

 which have now reached us safely. Very few lists of birds 

 from the different parts of South Africa have hitherto been 

 published, so that our knowledge of the local distribution of 

 species in this wide area is still very incomplete. I have 

 therefore thought that it might be useful to give a full 

 list of the birds obtained and observed on this occasion, 

 together with certain details and the remarks of the collector. 



As would naturally be expected, the avifauna of Pondo- 

 land shews considerable resemblance to that of Natal, and 

 Mr. Shortridge has been so fortunate as to obtain examples 

 of seven species hitherto unrecorded from Cape Colonv : 



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