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part of the time, July to September, at Klein Letaba, a small 

 '' dorp '' ou the Lctaba River, in 23° 21' S., 30" 40' E. This 

 was a fever-laden spot in the "low veld" lying below the 

 Drakensberg escarpment, at about 1000 ft. above the sea. 

 Three summer and two winter months were passed at 

 Woodbush on the " high veld " about thirty miles N.E. of 

 Pietersburg, at about 4500 ft., close to the escarpment, and 

 a short time at Pietersburg itself and at Turfloop, halfway 

 between Pietersburg and Woodbush. Legogot, the last place 

 visited, is in the Barl)erton district at about 3000 feet eleva- 

 tion, a few miles north of the Pretoria-Delagoa Bay railway. 



From June 1906 to September 1907 Grant was in 

 Portuguese East Africa. Coguno, the first place visited, is 

 about seventy-five miles S.W. of Inhambane. The country 

 is forest and dense bush and rather flat, probably in all 

 cases under 1000 ft. in elevation. Then Beira, the port 

 of Rhodesia, was reached, and Masambeti, a place on the 

 railway about twenty-three miles from Beira. Here the 

 country Avas low-lying and flat, with patches of open land 

 and forest alternating, all of which is flooded in the rainy 

 season. Tambarara is a place on the south-west slopes of the 

 Gorongoza Mountains, at about 1000 ft. The mountains 

 themselves, which rise to 5200 feet, were found to be practi- 

 cally inaccessible ; they are situated a little north of the 

 railway from Beira to Umtali and about halfway between 

 the two places. Finally, the last place visited was Tete, a 

 well-known spot on the Zambesi, where Dr. Peters did a 

 great deal of collecting in the middle of the last century. 

 Mr. Grant's work was chiefly done about twenty miles south 

 of Tete, at the junction of the Luenya and Mazoe Rivers. 



Mr. Grant's collection during these five years comprised 

 3527 skins, representing 591 species. In the Check-list which 

 I compiled in 1905 I estimated the number of species and 

 subspecies of South-African birds at 868, so that, although 

 no sea-birds were collected, Mr. Grant was able to bring 

 home examples of almost three-quarters of the total known 

 number of South-African birds. 



