Excerpt from The Journal of the South African Ornithologists' Union, 1911, Vol. 7<br><br>During my absence from the country, from April 1907 to October 1908, Mr. D. P. J. Odendaal, who took my place, and whom I have already had occasion Ibis,' 1908. P. 5) to thank for much valuable help rendered previously in this connection, got together for me a collection of about 600 bird-skins and a number of interesting nests and eggs(identi tying by shooting or trapping at the nests), together'with many excellent field-notes. The following pages are de scriptive of the eggs and of such nests as remain. Hutor tunately, rats have eaten their way into two of the more important boxes, with the result that many nests, skins, and labels have been destroyed.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.