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PODICIPES FLUVIATILIS. 



Little Grebes were not abundant on the lagoons of fresh 

 water which occur near Shi Tao and the North-East 

 Promontory. These birds breed rather late, as one fresh 

 egg was obtained on July 20th, and on August 28th a 

 young bird not very long hatched. 



XXVIII.— 0« t//e Birds collected bi/ Mr. Claude H. B. Grant at 

 various Localities in South Africa. — Part III. By W. L. 

 ScLATER, M.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. JFit/i FidJ-Notes by 

 the Collector. 



[Continued from above, p. 437.] 



The numbers in front of the names of the Birds are those 

 of the ' Check-list of South-African Birds/ published l)y me 

 in 1905 (Ann. S. Afr. Mus. iii. pp. 303-387), which is 

 founded upon the four volumes of the ' Birds of South 

 Africa^ by myself and the late Dr. Stark. 



In order to save space the following contractions are 

 used : — 



CC. = Cape Colony. Tv. = Transvaal. 

 KT. — Natal. P. = Portuguese East Africa. 



Z. = Zululand. 



382. Upupa africana. 



Tv. "Woodbush, May, June (2) ; Legogot, j\Iay (1) ; 

 P. Coguno, Aug. (2) ; Beira, Dec. (1). 



[The African Hoopoe has been noted from the Cape 

 Peninsula (March 1903), the Eastern and North-Eastern 

 Transvaal, and the Inhambane and Beira districts of Portu- 

 guese East Africa. It appears to be a local migrant to a 

 certain extent — as, for instance, at the "Woodbush it was only 

 observed in the winter, none being met with in the summer 

 season ; and at the Cape I have only seen it in the month 

 mentioned, although I was there in both February and 

 March and again in October. It is usually seen in paij-s or 



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