by Mr. Claude Grant hi South Africa. 727 



do most of the other Woodpeckers. I noted it as common 

 in the forests of the Knysna, Zululand and Natal, the 

 South-Eastern and North-Eastern Transvaal, but no sign 

 of it appeared in the great virgin forests of Portuguese 

 East Africa, although those of the Gorongoza district seem 

 as well suited to its habits as those further south. It was 

 observed both singly and in pairs, the cry being some- 

 what loud, but perhaps not so harsh as that of the other 

 Woodpeckers. Although I have seen this bird right through 

 the summer season, I have never succeeded in observing a 

 pair nesting. 



The soft parts of both sexes are : — Irides dark crimson ; 

 bill, legs and toes slate-coloui-ed. lu many specimens the 

 greater part of the lower mandible is pearly white.] 



4J<3. Iynx ruficollis. 



Tv. Woodbush, May 23, 25 (4). 



Mr. Grant's notes strengthen my conclusion (B. S. Afr. 

 iii. p. 143) that this bird is only a winter visitor to South 

 Africa. 



[I have not observed this Wryneck elsewhere than in the 

 Woodbush, North-Eastern Transvaal, where I spent some 

 months from April onwards ; it was not until the latter 

 end of May that this species put in an appearance, when I 

 secured the only four specimens seen, after which I did not 

 see or hear another. In the early morning these birds 

 could be heard calling from the tops of the trees, but were 

 silent throughout the rest of the day. Whether they were 

 passing through on migration it is impossible to say posi- 

 tively, but the fact that none was seen or heard before 

 or after tends to that conclusion. 



The soft parts are : — Irides russet-brown ; bill, legs and 

 toes pale whitish green.] 



415. Indicator major. 



Tv. Legogot, Apl. (1). 



[Only at Sibudeni in Zululand, and at Legogot, Eastern 

 Transvaal, where the specimen secured was shot, have I noted 

 this Honey-Guide. The specimen secured was sitting on a 



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