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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
mountain ranges), the Knysna district, Zululand, and the 
South-Eastern, Eastern, and North-Eastern Transvaal. It 
is found in flocks in the winter and in pairs and flocks in the 
breeding-season, and spends the greater part of its time on 
the ground, in native lands, footpaths, and cut roads, feeding 
largely upon grass-seeds. 
The soft parts are :— 
Ad. Irides red ; bill coral ; legs and toes very dark horn- 
coloured. 
Juv. Irides pale red ; bill black, bluish white at gape ; 
legs and toes horny.] 
52 a. Estrilda astrilda cavendishi. 
F. Masambeti, Oct. (2); Beira, Dec. (1). 
These Booibeckjes are distinctly smaller and darker than 
those from the Cape and Transvaal, and agree very well with 
Sharpe’s type of Estrilda cavendishi from the Clieringoma 
district of Mozambique. 
54. Estrilda incana. 
N. Illovo, Nov. (1) ; P. Coguno, Aug. (1) ; Beira, Feb. 
( 2 ). 
[“ Simbasili” of Ntebis. 
The Grey Waxbill was found in Natal and the Inhambane 
and Beira districts of the Portuguese country. It is an 
uncommon species, and I have only observed a pair in each 
locality in which I have found it. It has much the habits of 
the other Waxbills. 
The pair at Beira were breeding, but unfortunately I did 
not discover the half-finished nest till after I had shot them. 
It was placed in the upper branches of a bush on the banks 
of a wooded water-course, and was more or less dome-shaped 
and composed of bents. 
The soft parts are :—Irides red or crimson ; bill slaty- 
blue or pale slate-coloured, darker at tip; legs and toes 
black or very dark slate-coloured.] 
55. Estrilda angolensis. 
Tv. Klein Letaba, July, Aug. (11); P. Tete, Sept. (1). 
[This little Waxbill was only noted from the low country 
