by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 287 



The soft parts are : — 



^ . Irides orange-yellow ; bill black ; legs and toes slate- 

 coloured. 



? . Irides pale yellovr ; bill^ upper mandible blackish^ 

 lower whitish horn-coloured ; legs and toes paler slate- 

 coloured.] 



196. Dryoscopus rufiventer. 



CC. Table Mt. slopes, Jan., Feb. (2) ; Durban Rd., 

 ]\Ich.j Sept. (4) ; Knysna, Jan., Apl. (2) ; Plettenberg Bay, 

 Feb. (1) ; Z. Ngoye Forest, Sept. (2) ; Tv. Woodbush, 

 Jan., June, Nov. (4.) ; Legogot, May (1) ; P. Coguno, 

 Aug., Sept. (2). 



The examples from Coguno are both females and should 

 perhaps be referred to the tropical form D. rufiventer hybridus 

 recognised by Reichenow, if it can really be separated ; but 

 the Coguno females exactly match females from Durban Rd. 



['"Zwart-Canaribyter^' of Colonists. 



This Shrike was commonly noted from the Cape Peninsula, 

 the Knysna, Zululand, the Eastern and Nortli-Eastern 

 Transvaal, and the Inhambane district of Portuguese East 

 Africa. It frequents forests and well-timbered country, and, 

 except when young are about, is found in pairs. It feeds 

 principally on coleopterous insects, and never, I believe, 

 attacks small biids. 



The whistle-call 'Mioo-hoo " of the male, followed im- 

 mediately by the answering call of " ku-ee " of the female, 

 at once betrays its presence. It is skulking in habits, and 

 the flight, when indulged in, is of short duration. 



The soft parts are : — Irides hazel ; bill black ; legs and 

 toes slate-coloured. 



In the young, the bill is brownish black.] 



198. Laniartus major mossambicus. 



P. Beira, Nov., Dee., Jan. (4) ; Tete, Aug. (3). 



The characters of the various subspecies of Laniarius major 

 are by no means constant, but on the whole the Beira and 

 Tete Shrikes seem referable to this form. 



[This species Avas found only in the Beira, Gorongoza, 



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