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mixed up with foreign specimens. In my opinion all 

 Mnsemns should have as good a series illustrative of the 

 local Fauna as can be obtained, kept separate from the 

 general collection ; most naturalists, I believe, agree with 

 me in this opinion. Worthy of special notice in this 

 Museum was a fine pair of the Bearded Yulture {Gypaetus 

 ossifragus) from the Drakensburg. 



" After Maritzburg the next long halt was made at 

 Johamiesburg, where the Sections sat on three mornings 

 and completed their work. The only ornithological paper 

 read in Section D was one by Mr. W. L. Sclater on the 

 migration of birds in the Southern Hemisphere. This is a 

 most interesting subject on which much more information 

 is required. Mr. Sclater's paper will be published, I 

 believe, in the second part of the " Journal of the South 

 African Ornithologists' Union," which is now nearly ready 

 for press. 



" Among the objects exhibited in the temporary Museum 

 attached to the Sectional meeting rooms at Johannesburg, 

 was the private collection of birds and eggs belonging to 

 Mr. Lionel E. Taylor, of the Forest Department of the 

 Transvaal. Mr. Taylor's collection consists of 340 speci- 

 mens referable to about 260 species, all obtained by himself, 

 mostly in the neighbourhood of Irene, Transvaal, where he 

 resides. Mr. Taylor has kindly furnished me with the 

 following notes on some of the more interesting specimens 

 in his collection. 



1. Hypoch^ra funeeea. 



This bird appears to be common at Irene. I have also 

 seen it on the Magaliesberg, near Barberton. I have 

 observed just as many with red (salmon-coloured) bills 

 as with white bills, but the latter colour is given in the 

 text-books. 



2. Petronia petronella. 



This is a rare bird at Irene, or, at any rate, not often- 

 seen about here. 



