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a small tree-like shrub, and having searched it thoroughly 
through proceeded to another. Their curious raouse-like 
climbing antics and the positions assumed are known to 
us from captive specimens in the Regent’s Park, but this 
was my only opportunity of witnessing their evolutions in a 
natural condition. As the eggs of this isolated form — one 
of the most distinctive Ethiopian types of bird-life — are not 
well known, I beg leave to exhibit some specimens of them. 
“’On the margin of the ])ond on Sea-point Common I also 
noticed specimens of a Pipit [Antlnis sp. inc.) and a small 
Sliore-Plover {JEginlitis) , but could not be certain as to the 
species. 
“Two ascents of the well-known and most picturesque 
mountain which rises to a height of some 2500 feet above 
Capetown inti’oduced me to several birds which I had not 
seen below. The splendid Pro/ea-shrubs just coming into 
flower were the resort of two forms of bird-life which were 
quite new to me in naturd. These were the long-tailed 
Promerops cafer — another exclusively Ethiopian type — and 
the Sun -birds {Anthohaphes and Cimiyris). Promerops 
appears to have been modified specially to feed on the nectar 
of the Proteacese which are so abundant on the hills of 
Southern Africa, but, no doubt, also avails itself of the 
insects attracted to the same flowers. On Table Mountain 
I also observed specimens of a very fine Rock-Tlirush — Monti- 
cola exp! orator, I believe — and an occasional Crow [Corvus 
scapnlatus). Of the latter a single specimen appears to 
have taken up its abode in the garden of Gi’oot Schuur in 
the society of the Rooks which Mr. Rhodes has lately 
imported from Europe. 
“ On the Cape Flats just outside Capetown the Secretary- 
bird {Serpentarius secretarms) still builds its nest every year, 
though I did not myself see it in this locality. A pair of 
young Secretary-birds now in the Museum Grounds at Cape- 
town were obtained here in 1898, and two eggs were taken 
from the same nest on the 15th October this year. It is 
curious to mention that our familiar Heron {Ardea cinerea) 
inhabits the Adeys ’ in the same district, and that the Great 
