by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 301 



and reeds in swampy localities, and has much the ha])its of 

 a true E^ed- Warbler, sliding up and down the reeds and 

 seldom flying. The call is loud and harsh, and it is probably 

 this bird that I have heard in most localities visited where 

 swamps or reedy rivers exist. 



The soft parts are : — Trides hazel ; bill, upper mandible 

 dark brown, lower much paler ; legs and toes brown.] 



247. SCH(ENIC0LA APICALIS. 



Z. Umfolosi Station, Sept. (2). 



This is a rare, or, at any rate, a very local, species in South 

 Africa. The British Museum has examples only from Pine- 

 town and Durban in Natal ; but it was also recorded from 

 Zululand by the Woodwards and from Mashonaland by 

 Marshall and Swynnerton. 



[The two birds brought home are the only specimens I 

 have seen. Both were flushed in long grass growing in 

 swampy ground bordering a lagoon. 



The soft parts are : — 1 rides pale horn-coloured ; bill, u|)[)er 

 mandible dark horn-coloured, lower pale horn-coloured ; legs 

 and toes fleshy.] 



249. Errmomela polioxaxtha. 



Tv. Klein Letaba, duly (1). 



A rare bird, only known in South Africa from Swaziland 

 (whence came Buckley's type), Komatipoort [Francis, in S.A. 

 Mus.), and the Umfuli River, Mashonaland [Jameson). 



[The specimen brought home is the only one I have ever 

 seen ; it was solitary, and was creeping about at the top of 

 a large "wait-a-bit^' thorn-tree on the banks oF the Klciu 

 Letaba River. 



Soft })arts n(;t recorded.] 



252. Eremomela scotops. 



Tv. Klein Letaba, Aug., Sept. (6) ; P. Tamljarara, jNIcIi. 



a)- 



[This Bush-Warbler was noted in the " bush veld '^ of 

 the North-Easteru Transvaal, where it Avas common, and the 

 single specimen was taken from a small flock in the 



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