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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
part of the time, July to September, at Klein Letaba, a small 
“ dorp ” on the Letaba River, in 23° 21' S., 30° 40' E. This 
was a fever-laden spot in the “ low veld ” lying below the 
Drakensberg escarpment, at about 1000 ft. above the sea. 
Three summer and two winter months were passed at 
Woodbush on the “ high veld ” about thirty miles N.E. of 
Pietersburg, at about 4500 ft., close to the escarpment, and 
a short time at Pietersburg itself and at Turfloop, halfway 
between Pietersburg and Woodbush. Legogot, the last place 
visited, is in the Barberton district at about 3000 feet eleva¬ 
tion, a few miles north of the Pretoria-Delagoa Bay railway. 
From June 1906 to September 1907 Grant was in 
Portuguese East Africa. Coguno, the first place visited, is 
about seventy-five miles S.W. of Inhambane. The country 
is forest and dense bush and rather flat, probably in all 
cases under 1000 ft. in elevation. Then Beira, the port 
of Rhodesia, was reached, and Masambeti, a place on the 
railway about twenty-three miles from Beira. Here the 
country was low-lying and flat, with patches of open land 
and forest alternating, all of which is flooded in the rainy 
season. Tambarara is a place on the south-west slopes of the 
Gorongoza Mountains, at about 1000 ft. The mountains 
themselves, which rise to 5200 feet, were found to be practi¬ 
cally inaccessible ; they are situated a little north of the 
railway from Beira to Umtali and about halfway between 
the two places. Finally, the last place visited was Tete, a 
well-known spot on the Zambesi, where Dr. Peters did a 
great deal of collecting in the middle of the last century. 
Mr. Grant’s work was chiefly done about twenty miles south 
of Tete, at the junction of the Luenya and Mazoe Rivers. 
Mr. Grant’s collection during these five years comprised 
3527 skins, representing 591 species. In the Check-list which 
I compiled in 1905 I estimated the number of species and 
subspecies of South-African birds at 868, so that, although 
no sea-birds were collected, Mr. Grant was able to bring 
home examples of almost three-quarters of the total known 
number of South-African birds. 
