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*OiSTicoLA TiNNiENS. (LevaiUant's Grass-Warbler.) — 

 (lommon on grass or scrub land. Found singly or in pairs. 

 ? 27. G. 11. Iris and legs light brown. Contents of stomach, 

 small beetles. 



*Prinia hypoxantha. (Saffron-breasted Wren-Warbler.) — 

 Common on grass lands. Iris light brown. Legs flesh- 

 colonr. Stomach, insects. 



*Thamnolea bifasciata. (Buff-streaked Chat.) — Not 

 uncommon. 



*Pratincola touquattis. (South African Stone Chat) 

 (var. orieiitdlis). — Common. 



*Cossypha caffra. (Capo Robin Chat.) — Eatlier uncommon 

 here, but commoner up on the mountain ranges, (contents 

 of stomach, insects. 



Y. — Notes on some of the Game- and Water-Birds of the 

 Pretoria Bvsh Veld. By Alwin Haagner, F.Z.S., 

 CoLM.B.O.U., Director, Tvl. Zool. Gardens. 



AViTH the opening of the present shooting season, I made up 

 my mind to go on an eight days' shooting trip to the 

 Bushveld. 



Our party (consisting of 4 " guns," a guide, and a couple 

 of native servants) left Pretoria early one Tuesday morning 

 in a light spring-trolley drawn by four ponies. We journeyed 

 through the native reserves of " Hebron " and " Jericho," 

 where, through the kind permission of Chief Mamogale 

 (sub-chief of the Bakwena Tribe) — we had excellent sport. 

 From Jericho we went to " Buffelsdraai," a wild thickly 

 wooded farm on the Aapies River, 50 miles from Pretoria, for 

 permission to ^hootupon which we have to thank Mr. Altman 

 of Pretoria. Here a large male brown hyena was caught 

 in a " gintrap"and several unsuccessful attempts were made 

 to locate a leopard in the thickly wooded kloofs. " Haak- 

 doornbult," a farm on the ( *rocodile River, is about ten 



