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with palms and thorn-bush, the thorns in places forming patches 

 and thickets interspersed with a few good-sized trees, the surface 

 broken with both dry and swampy pans and vleys, and deep swampy 

 sluits filled w-ith dense reeds intersect the country towards the 

 river. A low range of hills runs along the coast. To the north 

 the ^ country becomes more broken and hills and deeper ravines 

 begin to appear. 



" About 8 miles to the south of the station is a dense thorn- 

 forest of considerable size, called by the natives the ' Dukuduku,' 

 which joins and disappears in the great swamps and reed-beds 

 through which the Umvolosi River runs. 



"Towards the Hlupeuwe and opposite the north end of the 

 Lake the country is broken and hilly, palms are not so noticeable, 

 but the thorns become common and more regular in appeai-ance ; 

 often as one looks across some hillside or down a long valley they 

 look pa.rk-like in their regularity. One would almost believe they 

 had been planted by hand. Beits of thick bush fringe nearly all 

 the rivers, often being very dense and wide." 



After putting aside the duplicates, the Zulu collection, which, 

 as in the previous cases, is presented to the Museum by Mr. Rudd, 

 numbers 222 specimens belonging to no less than 49 species. It 

 thus forms not only one of the most important accessions that 

 the National Collection has ever received from this part of Africa, 

 but, owing to the number of the new forms contained in it, 

 affords a remarkable example of the need for such a scientific 

 survey of the fauna as Mr. Rudd is carrying on in South Africa. 

 Mr. Grant, the actual collector, is also to be congratulated on the 

 striking results that have been obtained from his materials. 



1. Papio porcarius Bodd. 

 c?. 588. Sibudeni. 



" Zulu name ' Jufyane ' *. 



" Difficult to secure and more often heard than seen, as they 

 live in large troops in the thick forest. 



" They feed principally on fruit, and where wild fruit abounds 

 they can sometimes be obtained by waiting under the trees, but 

 they are at all 'times wonderfully wary." — C. H. B. G. 



2. Oercopithec[js pygerythrus Guv. 



6. 832, 840. 2 . 827, 841. Umvolosi Station. 



6 . 846. Hlatwa District. 



The material at our disposal is at present insufficient to decide 

 definitely as to the relationship of i:>ygerytlirus and lalandii, so 

 we provisionally adopt the earlier name. 



" Zulu name ' Nkau.' 



"Common in the 'Dukuduku' thorn-forest, eight miles to the 

 south of the station. Generally seen in parties of from six to 



* " In the reading of the Zuhi names, C, X, and Q are clicks ; I is pronounced as E 

 A as E, H as S, and E as long A."— C. H. B. G. 



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