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elevation of about 3100 ft., on the edge of the plateau ; some 

 days at Anemous, a few miles nearer the sea, at 1800 ft. ; 

 the rest at Port Nolloth in the desolate coastal plain. 



From October 1903 to February 1904 the time was 

 occupied in collecting at Sibudeni (1100 to 1700 ft.) and 

 in the Jususie or Insuzi Valley, a bush and forest country 

 iibout twenty miles west of Eshowe in Zululand. The rest 

 oi: the Zululand collection was made later in the same 

 year between June and October. The chief and most 

 productive collecting-place was Umfolosi (or Univolosi), a 

 Station on the Zululand railway about three miles from the 

 river of the same name and fifteen miles from the sea. 

 Here the elevation was only from 100-200 ft. above the 

 sea-level. Other localities, a few miles to the north, such 

 as Somkele and the Hiuhluwe Stream, were also visited, 

 but very few birds were taken there. Finally, a month 

 was spent in the Ngoye or Umgoye forest, about fifteen 

 miles east of Eshowe and about six or eight hundred feet 

 above the sea, which is some eight miles away. 



The summer months of 1904-5 were again spent in Cape 

 Colony, at Knysna, and at Plcttenberg Bay, a few miles to 

 the east. Knysna is historic ground; it is the nearest bit of 

 true forest to Capetown, and was visited by all the earlier 

 South African naturalists and travellers — Levaillant and 

 Lalande, Victorin and Andcrsson, and many others. The 

 ground rises very steeply from the sea to about 4000 ft. 

 and is covered with magnificent forest, and it is here that 

 iorest birds — Trogons, Touracos, and Parrots — are first 

 Uict with. 



Grant also spent a good many months in the eastern part 

 of the Transvaal, visiting first, in the winter of 1904, Wakker- 

 stroom, a well-known place in the south-east corner of the 

 Transvaal, at an elevation of about 5500 ft., and therefore 

 well on the " liigh veld,'^ and a smaller place, Zuurbron, 

 about twenty miles further east, at the slightly lower elevation 

 of 4800 ft. From May 1905 to March 1906 he was in the 

 ^oiitKpansberg district in thcNorth-Fnst Trausvaal, spending 



