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Order STEGANOPODES. 

 Family Phalacrocoracid^e. 



211. PHALACROCORAX Africanus (Gm.) ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 781. 



Gracitlus Africanus (Gm.) ; Sharpe in Oates's Matabele Land, 

 ed. 1, App. p. 328 (1881). Long-tailed Cormorant. 

 a. Not labelled. 



Family PLOTID^E. 



212. Plotus Levaillanti, Licht. ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, p. 782. Le 



Vaillant's Darter. 

 a. Meriko River, November 1873. 



Order PYGOPODES. 

 Family Podicipitid^E. 



213. Podiceps MINOR, L. ; Sharpe, /. c. p. 787. Little Grebe. 



a. Tchakani Vlei, May 15, 1874. Iris yellowish hazel, or rather 

 deep raw sienna or amber ; upper mandible dusky black ; base and 

 lower mandible orange ; legs and feet black. 



b. $ Tamasanka, December 10, 1874. Bill black, tipped with 

 white, and spotted at base with white ; legs black, fringed on webs 

 with white. Beetles in stomach. 



