Cory Library and Historical Archives

Pirie Mountain, King William's Town

Item

Skead, C. J. (Cuthbert John), “Pirie Mountain, King William's Town”, 1963, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/831

Title

Pirie Mountain, King William's Town

Creator

Skead, C. J. (Cuthbert John)

Description

Cape and Gurney Sugerbird Promerops cafer & Gurneyi country. The left-hand dome is Hoho Peak, or Pirie West Peak, on the western slopes of which both species where found occupying and nesting in a thicket of tall, dense Protea subvestita, almost the last patch of any size on these mountains. The dark areas on the slopes are protea trees. Those on top had been burned out. Such thickets would have been more widespread in the past. Below are some Protea multibracteata plants. The thickets of subvestita were burnt out in the late 1960's to make way for stock grazing.

Subject

Sugarbirds -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape

Birds -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape

Date Copyrighted

1963

Type

still image

Extent

1 photograph

Format

jpg

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013772

Location - Physical Location

Cory Library for Humanities Research

Rights

Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Date

1963

Item sets

C.J. Skead Photograph Collection

King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Media

vital_12365+SOURCEJPG+SOURCEJPG.0.jpeg

Hierarchies

The Frontier Collection

• The 1820-Settlers (32 items)
• The Frontier Wars (92 items)
• The Development of Settler Towns (468 items)
  • Alice (40 items)
  • Bathurst (16 items)
  • Bedford (3 items)
  • Cathcart (5 items)
  • Cradock (200 items)
  • East London (22 items)
  • Grahamstown (91 items)
  • King William's Town (32 items)
  • Port Alfred (19 items)
  • Port Elizabeth (34 items)
  • Queenstown (6 items)

Skead, C. J. (Cuthbert John), “Pirie Mountain, King William's Town”, 1963, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/831