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elevation of about 3100 ft., on the edge of the plateau ; some 
days at Anemous, a few miles nearer the sea, at 1800 ft.; 
the rest at Port Nolloth in the desolate coastal plain. 
From October 1903 to February 1904 the time was 
occupied in collecting at Sibudeni (1100 to 1700 ft.) and 
in the Jususie or Insuzi Valley, a bush and forest country 
about twenty miles west of Eshowe in Zululand. The rest 
of the Zululand collection was made later in the same 
year between June and October. The chief and most 
productive collecting-place was Umfolosi (or Umvolosi), a 
Station on the Zululand railway about three miles from the 
river of the same name and fifteen miles from the sea. 
Here the elevation was only from 100-200 ft. above the 
sea-level. Other localities, a few miles to the north, such 
as Somkele and the Hluhluwe Stream, were also visited, 
but very few birds were taken there. Finally, a month 
was spent in the Ngoye or Umgoye forest, about fifteen 
miles east of Eshowe and about six or eight hundred feet 
above the sea, which is some eight miles away. 
The summer months of 1904-5 were again spent in Cape 
Colony, at Knysna, and at Plettenberg Bay, a few miles to 
the east. Knysna is historic ground; it is the nearest bit of 
true forest to Capetown, and was visited by all the earlier 
South African naturalists and travellers—Levaillant and 
Lalande, Victorin and Andersson, and many others. The 
ground rises very steeply from the sea to about 4000 ft. 
and is covered with magnificent forest, and it is here that 
forest birds—Trogons, Touracos, and Parrots—are first 
met with. 
Grant also spent a good many months in the eastern part 
of the Transvaal, visiting first, in the winter of 1904, VYakker- 
stroom, a well-known place in the south-east corner of the 
Transvaal, at an elevation of about 5500 ft., and therefore 
well on the “ high veld,” and a smaller place, Zuurbron, 
about twenty miles further east, at the slightly lower elevation 
of 4800 ft. From May 1905 to March 1906 he was in the 
Zoutspansberg district in the North-East Transvaal, sj)ending 
