hy Mr. Claude Grant in Suuth .Africa. 735 



along streams and rivers or marshy places. Altliougli 

 almost exclusively a grouud bird_, it will sometimes perch 

 on branches and in bushes and trees, especially when 

 disturbed. The flight is slow and floppy and seldom long 

 sustained. The call, whicli is more often heard in wet 

 weather than in dry, and is more frequently uttered in the 

 early morning, is a series of liquid notes running up and 

 down the scale, not easily described, but which cannot be 

 mistaken for that of any other bird. I have never succeeded 

 in locating a nest. 



The soft parts are : — Irides red ; bill, legs and toes black.] 



476. Centropus superciliosus. 



P. Coguno, Aug. (1). 



This bird is a female not quite adult, which agrees iu every 

 respect with C. superciliosus, ey.ce'^i that it has a single blue- 

 black feather on the nape which looks as if more were 

 coming and that eventually it would develop into C. hurchelli ; 

 but C. superciliosus undoubtedly does occur in South Africa, 

 though it is by no means so common as G. hurchelli. 



478. Ceuthmochares australis. 

 P. Bcira, Feb. (1). 



[I have only on one occasion come across this species and 

 that was in a dense patch of forest within five miles of Bcira. 

 It was seen skulking and creeping about in some parasitic 

 ])lants growing on one of the trees. I do not know its call, 

 and it is a species that might easily be overlooked owing to 

 the dense nature of the country in which it lives. 



Tlie soft parts are : — Irides dark crimson ; bill yellow, 

 base of culmeu black ; legs and toes black.] 



479. TURACUS CORVTHAIX. 



CC. Knysua, Dec, Jan., Feb. (2(1); Plcttenberg Bay, 

 Mch. (1). 



["Lourie'^ of the Colonists; "Gwalagwala" of the 

 Zulus. 



Curiously enough, I liave only taken this Turaco in the 

 Knysna district, and have heard it only in one other locality 

 and that was in the Nkandhla Forest in Zululand, where it 



