30 Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton on the 
I opened two of the remaining eggs and took out the young, 
which were alive. They were much less advanced than the 
hatched bird. The most forward would probably have been 
hatched next day, but the other had no scales on its legs, 
and would probably not have come out for four days *. 
I].—On the Birds of Gazaland, Southern Rhodesia. 
By C. F. M. Swynnerron. 
(Plate I.) 
A.rnuouGH the greater portion of the high veld of Gazaland is 
now included politically in Mashonaland, under the name of 
the “‘ Melsetter District,’ from a scientific point of view, and 
from the view of the natives, Gazaland (the country conquered 
at the commencement of the last century by Mauikusa and 
his Zulus—the “ Aba-Gaza”) constitutes a very distinct 
district, characterized by the irruption of many trans- 
Zambezian forms and in parts by its richer and more varied 
vegetation. The highlands under the rule of the Chartered 
Company are separated from Mashonaland proper by the 
Umvumvumyvu River on the north and by the Sabi (here a 
wide sand-river, flowing at the bottom of a hot dry valley at 
an elevation of about 1000 feet) on the west. They consist of 
grassy mountains, varying from 3000 feet in parts of Southern 
Melsetter to the 8000 feet or more of the rugged Chimani- 
mani range, the whole being well watered by numerous 
permanent streams and so varied in character as to afford an 
unusually interesting field for the naturalist, whatever his 
special hobby may be. Much of the country, especially at 
the higher elevations, is open and covered with short turf, 
* A single egg which I found on July 5, and thought at first was the 
ege of this Grebe, is so much larger than any of the eggs described above 
that I do not think it can be an egg of the Dabchick: It might belong 
to P. nigricollis, although I have never seen that species at Chinkiang. 
It measures 1°61 1:04’. It is greenish white, and its shape is narrowly 
oval, with one end much pointed. 
