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This species usually sleeps in holes or lairs in grass -tufts on the veld. 

 Their usual feeding-time is early morning and in the evening. 



Lepus saxitilis (vernacular name, "Kol-haas"; literally, "Spot- 

 hare"). — The running powers of this Hare are considerably greater 

 than those of the preceding species. I have generally found them 

 among scrub, rocks, and stones on koppies, and in plantations. They 

 go out into the flats to feed, but are never found very far from bush or 

 koppies (i. e. cover of some sort), according to my coursing experiences* 

 You will very often see them of an evening skipping about the paths 

 and feeding along roadways, or just outside plantations. Their forms 

 are usually under scrubby bushes, or underneath overhanging stones 

 or rocks. These Hares are very common in the eucalyptus plantations 

 of the Witwatersrand, and form the chief bag of a day's drive. 



Lepus crassicaudatus ("Rooi-haas "). — This Hare is a denizen of 

 rocky declivities and krantzes on koppies. I have seen a few on 

 Botha's Berg, near Brandford, Orange River Colony, and a couple along 

 the ridge near " Orange Grove," Johannesburg ; also at the Klip- 

 riversberg. They are shy and retiring, and consequently I have had 

 no chance of making any sporting acquaintance with them. Their 

 bushy and reddish tails are quite enough to distinguish them from 

 the two foregoing species. — Alwin C. Haagner (Johannesburg). 



AVES. 



Lesser Grey Shrike in Norfolk. — While Partridge driving at 

 Docking, in Norfolk, on Oct. 11th of this year, I shot a Grey Shrike, 

 which turned out to be the Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor). The 

 bird is evidently a young one, as it has traces of buff tips to the wing- 

 coverts, where the edges are not worn away. I was unable to set it, 

 as it was very high when I skinned it, and was rather heavily shot in- 

 ternally with No. 5. There is no trace of rose colour on the breast, 

 but the sides of upper part of breast are inclined to a pale buff colour, 

 with faint barred markings ; no black on forehead, but a broad black 

 streak on cheek and ear-coverts ; scapulars grey, with no approach to- 

 white ; outside tail-feathers white, even to the shafts ; first primary 

 very short, not equalling in length the primary coverts. I exhibited 

 this bird at the last meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club. — 

 G. E. Lodge (5, Thurloe Studios, Thurloe Square, S.W.). 



Red-backed Shrike in Anglesea. — On June 19th I saw a pair of 



this species [Lanius collurio), and found the nest with newly-hatched 



young in a thick bramble-clump a little inland near Carmel Head. 



Though the locality where these birds had taken up their abode was a 



Zool. 4th ser. vol. VI., November, 1902. 2 L 



