. The Journal of the South African Ornithologists' Union . trespassedtoo long on your patience. Victorin and Wahlberg, theSwedes who collected chiefly for Sundevall, the greatSwedish ornithologist; Delalande, Verreaux, and Dela-gorgue, the French collectors ; Peters, afterwards the headof the Berlin Museum, who travelled in Mozambique, mustall be passed over. So, too, the Atmores, the Jacksons,Mrs. Barber, and many others who assisted Mr. of the most renowned and well-known of Africanornithologists, whose labours commenced as far back as1859, I am happy to say is still with us. 1 ne
. The Journal of the South African Ornithologists' Union . trespassedtoo long on your patience. Victorin and Wahlberg, theSwedes who collected chiefly for Sundevall, the greatSwedish ornithologist; Delalande, Verreaux, and Dela-gorgue, the French collectors ; Peters, afterwards the headof the Berlin Museum, who travelled in Mozambique, mustall be passed over. So, too, the Atmores, the Jacksons,Mrs. Barber, and many others who assisted Mr. of the most renowned and well-known of Africanornithologists, whose labours commenced as far back as1859, I am happy to say is still with us. 1 need hardlysay I refer to Mr. Thomas Ayres, of Potchefstroom, whohas contributed to the pages of The Ibis, in collaborationwith Mr. Gurney, 11 papers on the birds of Natal and 15 onthose of the Transvaal. In conclusion, I may say that it is my earnest wish thatour Union should take up the work of these old pioneeiS,and continue to add fresh observations and discoveries to thestudy in which we are all of us deeply interested. JouRN. S. A O. U., Vol. I. Ihoto by A. D. Millar, Duiliaii. NEST OF SMITHS WEAVER-BIRD (.Sitagra ocularia) Nesting-Ilahlts ^c. of South African Birds. II.—Supplementary Notes on the Nesting-Habits and Eggs ofcertain South African Birds described in Stark and Sclaters^ South African Fauna (Birds, vols, i., ii., & iii.). ^YEiCHARD Sparrow, , Major 7th Draf^oon Guards.(Communicated to and prepared for publication by Mr. ; with some Notes by the latter.) (Plates I. & II.) 1. Corvultur albicollis. (White-necked Raven.) The clutch is usually five, not three eggs. In the Natal I have found that it lays in August. 2. BuPHAGA erythrorhyncha. (Red-billed Oxpecker.)This species also nests in stone walls, and the eggs are of a white ground covered with dark pink spots and blotches. Itnests from November to January. 3. Lamprocolius ph(enicopterus bispecularis. (LesserRed-shouldered Glossy Starling.) Nests in November. The clutch is only
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