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VII.—The Birds of Northern Portuguese East Africa. Comprising a list of, and observations on, the collections made during the British Museum Expedition of 1931–32.—Part II.*

VII.—<i>The Birds of Northern Portuguese East Africa. Comprising a list of, and observations on, the collections made during the British Museum Expedition of</i> 1931–32.—Part II.*

XL.—The Birds of Northern Portuguese East Africa. Comprising a list of, and observations on, the collections made during the British Museum Expedition of 1931‐32.— Part I

IbisVolume 75, Issue 4 p. 611-652 XL.—The Birds of Northern Portuguese East Africa. Comprising a list of, and observations on, the collections made during the British Museum Expedition of 1931-32.— Part I Jack Vincent F.R.G.S., M.B.O.U., Jack Vincent F.R.G.S., M.B.O.U.Search for more papers by this author Jack Vincent F.R.G.S., M.B.O.U., Jack Vincent F.R.G.S., M.B.O.U.Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1933 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1933.tb03356.xCitations: 3AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume75, Issue4October 1933Pages 611-652 RelatedInformation

XLV.—Systematic Notes on East African Birds.

The authors of these notes are engaged upon a work to be called ‘The African Handbook of Birds,’ the first part of which covers that area of eastern Africa which includes the Sudan, Eritrea, Abyssinia, the Somalilands, Uganda, Kenya Colony, Tanganyika Territory, Belgian Ruanda and Urundi, the part of Nyasaland east of Lake Nyasa and the Shirté River, the part of Portuguese East Africa north of the Zambesi, and the islands adjacent to the mainland, including Socotra, Abd‐el‐Kuri, Pemba, and Zanzibar.

The Namuli Mountains, Portuguese East Africa: Discussion

The Namuli Mountains, Portuguese East Africa: Discussion

The Namuli Mountains, Portuguese East Africa

The Namuli Mountains, Portuguese East Africa

Dr. G. D. Hale Carpenter

THE vacancy in the Hope professorship of zoology at Oxford, caused by the resignation of Prof. E. B. Poulton, has been filled by the appointment of Dr. G. D. Hale Carpenter. Dr. Carpenter is widely known for his investigation of the bionomics of the tsetse fly, Glossina palpalis, a work undertaken by him between the years 1910 and 1914. During this time he resided first at Jin] a on the north shore of Victoria Nyanza, and afterwards on various islands, especially those of the Sesse archipelago, lying in the northwest corner of the lake. While the primary object of his living in this region was the study of the tsetse fly as the carrier of sleeping sickness, Dr. Carpenter found occasion to make many important observations on the natural history of the islands, especially in regard to the remarkable phenomena of mimicry shown by the swallow-tail butterfly, Papilio dardanus, and the series of forms of the nymphaline Pseudacraea euryths mimicking the acraeine genus Planema. At the outbreak of the War, he was called upon to act as medical officer to the forces operating on the southern frontier of Uganda, in German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa; and amidst the duties of active service he found opportunities for further fruitful observation, opportunities which were increased and turned to fresh account on his return to Uganda in 1918. His book “A Naturalist on Lake Victoria” was published in 1920. Dr. Carpenter's work has throughout been influenced and inspired by Prof. Poulton; and there is every reason for anticipating that the traditions of the Hope Department will be worthily carried on by the new professor.

The Vandau of Sofala

Opening ParagraphSofala, Portuguese East Africa, is not very easy of access. The journey has to be made from Beira, in a small hired motor-boat, and takes about six hours in favourable weather, but the Indian Ocean in the vicinity of Beira is often notoriously rough. In the dry season, part of the journey may be made overland, in a machila or travellinghammock. On our forward voyage in January 1930, the engine of the motor-boat was put out of action by the amount of water shipped. This caused a delay of about half an hour while bailing was done by the natives who managed the boat, and we were glad to enter the calm waters of Sofala Bay about 1.30 p.m., having left Beira at 7.30 a.m.

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LONDON. Mineralogical Society, Jan. 13.—F. C. Phillips: On a soda-margarite from the Postmasburg district, South Africa. A fuller description is given of material first described by A. L. Hall. The mineral occurs in mica-like crystals associated with the Postmasburg manganese ores. The physical properties described resemble in general those of a mica, but analyses show 50 per cent of alumina and 10 per cent of alkalis, with little lime. It is best described as soda-margarite; in composition it resembles the ‘ephesite’ of J. L. Smith.—F. A. Bannister: On the distinction of anal-cime from leucite in rocks by X-ray methods. Powder-photographs of phenocrysts in blairmorite from the Lupata Gorge, Zambezi River, Portuguese East Africa, are identical with those for analcime and not for leucite. The icositetrahedral outlines of the analcime phenocrysts found in the rock strongly suggest their primary origin. The X-ray photographs indicate that the phenocrysts are not single crystals, but consist of aggregates of particles in sub-parallel position.—F. A. Bannister: On a chemical, optical, and X-ray study of nepheline and kaliophilite (with chemical analyses by M. H. Hey): correlated data have enabled the author to prove the approximate constancy of the number of oxygen atoms in the unit cells of several nepheline and elaeolite specimens. Thence the numbers of atoms of each kind per unit cell have been counted. The cell volumes and optical properties have also been related to the chemical composition. An approximate structure is suggested which, together with the chemical work, explains the variable composition of nepheline. Kaliophilite is shown to possess a much larger cell than that of nepheline, and its Lauegram exhibits higher symmetry. ‘Pseudonepheline’ (rich in potassium) has a slightly greater cell volume than normal nepheline, but its Lauegram is almost identical and its axial ratio the same.—H. V. Warren: On an occurrence of grunerite at Pierrefitte, Hautes-Pyrenees, France. A grunerite-schist, consisting almost entirely of fibrous grunerite, occurs at the Pierrefitte mine, where needles of the same mineral also occur in the galena and blende of the ore-bodies. The grunerite is associated with a carbonaceous schist and with magnetite, and encloses specks of carbon. Analyses of grunerite from schist and ore by E. Gr. Radley are given.

41. A Collection of Frogs from Portuguese East Africa.

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of LondonVolume 100, Issue 4 p. 897-905 41. A Collection of Frogs from Portuguese East Africa. H. W. Parker B.A., H. W. Parker B.A. *Communicated by H. B. Cott, F.Z.S.Search for more papers by this author H. W. Parker B.A., H. W. Parker B.A. *Communicated by H. B. Cott, F.Z.S.Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1930 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1930.tb01004.xCitations: 4 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume100, Issue4December 1930Pages 897-905 RelatedInformation

A New Ceratotrochus from the Upper Cretaceous of Portuguese East Africa

Three small simple corals were collected by Mr. F. P. Mennell from the Upper Cretaceous of the Cheringoma district, Portuguese East Africa. The area is of special geological interest as it includes the southern end of the Great Rift Valley and furnishes useful evidence as to the date of the formation of that valley. A coral from almost the same horizon has been figured by Schlosser, and, as it is clearly a different species, the horizon may be expected to yield a good fauna of simple corals.

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LONDON. Linnean Society, Mar. 20.—C. Tate Regan: A new Ceratioid fish (Caulophryne sp.), female with male, from off Madeira. The fish represents a new species of the genus Caulophryne, distinguished from C. jordani Goode and Bean by the greater number of dorsal and anal rays and by the filaments on the stem of the illicium. Although distended by a recently swallowed fish larger than itself, it took a bait, and was caught on a long line off Madeira. The specimen is a female, 210 (145+65) mm. long, with a dwarfed and parasitic male 21 (16+5) mm. long attached to its abdomen. Lieut.—Colonel J. Stephenson: On an Oligochsete worm parasitic in frogs of the genus Phrynomerus. A specimen of a Nigerian frog, Phrynomerus microps, recently examined had a number of small worms hanging out in a cluster of about a dozen from the anterior angle of each eye and from under the neighbouring part of the lower lid. The worms belonged to a new species of the genus Nais of the freshwater family Naididae. In a second species of the genus Phrynomerus (bifasciatus), from JBeira, Portuguese East Africa, the Harderian (lacrymal) glands were found to be distended and transformed into a sac containing a number of small worms; these belonged to the same species as the preceding. This discovery prompted the stripping of the mucous membrane from the roof of the mouth of the first frog, from Nigeria, when it was discovered that in it also the Harderian glands contained a number of the worms. Oligochseta are rare as external, and still rarer as internal parasites.

An English-Tswa Dictionary. Compiled by the Rev. J. A. Persson, of the Methodist Episcopal Mission, Portuguese East Africa. 249 pp. Inhambani Mission Press, 1929.

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The Geology of the Lower Shire–Zambezi Area

The area lying between the Lower Zambezi and its northern tributary the Lower Shire forms a relatively small salient between the better-known parts of Portuguese East Africa lying to the north and to the south, and a study of its geology in relation to that of the larger territory has yielded interesting results. The area described includes the southern end of the Nyasaland Protectorate and that part of Portuguese East Africa lying between it and the Zambezi.

Some Mesozoic and Tertiary Igneous Rocks from Portuguese East Africa

The very interesting igneous rocks of the Mozambique Company's territory have not had much attention paid to them in the past, though some of them were noticed in the first paper dealing with the Karroo beds near Tete, that by Lapierre. That writer was in advance of some subsequent observers in his recognition of the peculiar character of the Lupata lavas: so far, indeed, have some others been from this that the various geologists working in the Tete district have actually been accustomed to call the Karroo basalts the “Lupata Volcanics”, as is done in the most recent paper referring to that area. The age of the basalts was demonstrated by the writer in some notes contributed to this Magazine in 1922, and to establish this it was necessary to discuss the position of the Lupata lavas. Messrs. Teale and Campbell Smith subsequently published the first reliable petrographical descriptions of some specimens previously collected by the former, and the present paper is intended to supplement by further field and petrographical notes the valuable work of Dr. Teale, who has long since sought pastures new. It may be mentioned that one of the chief features of the area is the way in which the various igneous rocks are sometimes intermixed. This is a leading factor in contributing to the uncertainty which surrounds the dating of some of the intrusives. Thus a large number of intrusions of various kinds traverse the Karroo basalts and these are undoubtedly of two and perhaps of three different periods. Faulting and overlaps also cause further complications, as may be seen in the small sedimentary area near Mutarara, where Tertiary, Cretaceous, and Karroo volcanics occur closely associated.

Further Notes on the Mammals of Northern Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa

Journal Article Further Notes on the Mammals of Northern Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa Get access Wynant Davis Hubbard Wynant Davis Hubbard New York City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 10, Issue 4, 11 November 1929, Pages 294–297, https://doi.org/10.2307/1374114 Published: 11 November 1929

LIII.—A new river-crab of the subgenus Potamonautes from Portuguese East Africa

LIII.—<i>A new river-crab of the subgenus</i> Potamonautes <i>from Portuguese East Africa</i>

The Linguistic Situation in South Africa

In this article I shall confine my remarks almost exclusively to that portion of South Africa south of the Zambezi and the Kunene rivers, a territory comprising the Union of South Africa, South-West Africa, Bechwanaland, Southern Rhodesia, and the southern portion of Portuguese East Africa. In this large area, quite apart from the European languages used, we have representatives of three distinct linguistic types. Two of these types, the Bushman and the Hottentot, will not delay us any length of time; but the third, the Bantu, presents many difficulties at this stage of the opening up of Africa to European civilization, difficulties which the missionary societies, the European administrations, and the Natives themselves are beginning to face, difficulties which are bound up inextricably with questions of economics, sentiment, and growing racial consciousness. The work of the linguist in this connexion is not eased by the fact that this area is not under one administration, and I fear that some of the movements towards a unification and centralization of some of the languages will be hampered for this reason.

The Distribution of Population in Nyasaland

VECKONED by African standards the native population of Nyasaland is large. According to the 1926 census' it is 1,290,885, giving an average of 34.6 per square mile, whereas for Tanganyika Territory the density is 11.26, for Northern Rhodesia 3.2, for Southern Rhodesia 5.I, for Portuguese East Africa 7.0. Distribution, however, is uneven. The total area of the Protectorate is about 37,890 square miles, and the population is disposed over it about as follows:

Observations on the Elephants of Northern Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa

Observations on the Elephants of Northern Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa

Notes on the Antelopes and Zebra of Northern Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa

Notes on the Antelopes and Zebra of Northern Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa