THE ir. IS. 



NINTH SERIES. 



No. II. APRIL 1!)12. 



X. — On a Collection of Birds made by Mr, AVillougliljy 

 P. Lowe on the TFest Coast of Africa and outft/inr/ Islands; 

 with Field-Notes by the Collector. By Davi n A. Ban n k u man, 

 B.A., M.B.O.U. 



(Plate IV. and Text-figs. 2 & 3.) 



In the autumn of 1910 Captain C. E. Plardy, li.N., II. M.S. 

 ' Mutine/ received orders to carry out a magnetic survey 

 on the West and South-east coasts of Africa, Being much 

 interested in Natural History he v.as most anxious tiiat 

 this trip should be utilized to enrich the collections at 

 the Natural History Museum, and very kindly invited 

 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, or any ornithologist he might 

 recommend, to joiii the ship at Capetow^i by the end of 

 November (1910j. jNIr. Willoughby P, Lowe, an excellent 

 naturalist and field-collector^ was fortunately al)le to avail 

 himself of this admirable op})ortunity, and while the guest 

 of Captain Hardy, visited many interesting places, and 

 formed a lai'ge and valuable zoological collection, chiefiy 

 of birds. jNIr. Lowe worked with his characteristic energy, 

 and, althougli_, owing to rough weather and other causes, 

 he was unable to spend as much time on land as he had 

 hoped^ yet he man(\ged to secure examples of a large 

 variety of species. J\Iany of them have proved exceedingly 

 interesting, and several valuable additions and novelties 

 were secured for the National Collection. 



Leaving Capetown at the end of November, Captain 

 Hardy, after visiting Icluibo Island^, gradually worked his 



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