hij Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 289 



and I am not sure that the first two notes are not the call 

 of the male and the third that of the feraale. The alarm- 

 note is a low '^coop/^ and the l)ird often comes so close as it 

 creeps ahout the bushes that siiootiug is impossible. 



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

 toes dull slate-coloured.] 



20.2. ClILOROPHONEUS KUBIGINOSUS. 



Z. Sibudeni, Nov. (1); Ngoye, Sept. (1); Tv. Wood- 

 bush, Nov., Dec. (6) ; Legogot, Apl. (1). 



The example from Legogot, a female shot on April 23, is 

 exactly similar to C. maraisi, described by me some years ago 

 from Knysna. I have no doiibt now that it is nothing but 

 C rubig'mums in the voting plumage, an opinion to which I 

 was inclined from the first, though I allowed for Mr. Marais' 

 repeated assurances that he had shot both males and females 

 in this plumage with the sexual organs fully developed. 

 Mr. Grant's notes shew that he is of the same opinion as 

 myself. 



[The C. maraisi of W. Sclater is, I think, nothing but the 

 first complete plumage of C. rubigiaosus, but young birds 

 from the nest with authenticated parent birds are required 

 to finally decide the question. The bird was only noticed 

 in Zululand and the North-Easteru Transvaal. It is a 

 forest-haunting species and unless carefully looked for can 

 be easily ov(?rlooked. I could not satisfactorily determine 

 the call of this bird, as I never actualh^ saw one in the act 

 of calling. 



The soft parts are : — Irides rvisset-brown ; bill black ; legs 

 and toes pale slate-coloured. 



Of the young bird (i. e. C. maraisi) : — Irides dark brown j 

 bill dark horn-coloured, pale yellowish at gape; legs and toes 

 pale slate-coloured.] 



205. CnLOROpnoNEUS sulphureopectus similis. 

 lieichcnow, Vog. Afr. ii. p. 563. 



Z. Umfolosi Station, July (1) ; Tv. Klein Letaba, 

 Sept. (2j. 



This subspecies can be easily distinguished from the 



