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we are extremely glad to be able to state that the observations will be

continued through the season that is now upon us, and we hope for a

number of years.


There are probably many of our members living in the country who

are interested in the subject of Bird Migration, and who would like to help

the Migration Committee by filling up and sending in, week by week, the

schedules recording the arrival of Summer Birds. As the migration season

has commenced there is no time to lose, and any member who knows his

birds is invited to write at once for schedules to the Secretary of the Migra¬

tion Committee, Mr. J. L. Bonliote, c/o The Zoological Society, 3, Hanover

Square, London, W.


The fourth and last of the Bird Volumes of the Fauna of South Africa

b} r Mr. W. L. Sclater, (Loudon : R. H. Porter), has now been published,

and a most useful and beautiful work completed. In this volume 281

species of Game-, Shore-, and Water-birds are described, making up a total

of 814 species for South Africa. The illustrations, of which we are enabled



CEna capensis.


to reproduce one here, are numerous and excellent, having been drawn

(with the exception of five photographs by Mr. H. E. Harris) specially for

this work by Mr. Gronvold.


The illustration above reproduced, of the charming Harlequin, Cape,

or Namaqua Dove is of especial interest to Aviculturists as it is a species

not infrequently kept by them. It inhabits practically the whole of Africa



