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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
Mr. Grant states in bis notes that be saw examples of this 
species near Beira, but Sheppard (Journ. S.A. Orn. Union, 
v. p. 24) does not include it in his list, and it is said not to 
occur north of the Transvaal. There are certainly no speci¬ 
mens of it in the British Museum, until we get as far north 
as British East Africa, where the longer-tailed C . delamerei 
replaces it. 
[ fcf Sakka-bulla ” of Zulus. 
The Long-tailed Widow-bird was noted from Natal and 
Zululand, the South-Eastern and North-Eastern Transvaal, 
and the Beira district of Portuguese East Africa. It, as a 
rule, frequents flat and extensive vleis, where the grass is both 
long and rank, and is usually found in flocks comprising 
one or two males and numbers of females. It is some¬ 
what wary and cannot always be approached within gunshot. 
The ordinary flight is floppy and erratic, and the males, 
when shewing off, fly with the body held almost perpen¬ 
dicularly, with the tail directed downward and somewhat 
spread, the wings being alternately opened and closed by a 
regular movement. In wet weather males in breeding- 
plumage are unable to fly, and many are caught by natives 
and their tail-feathers extracted; these birds present a 
comical and shorn appearance when afterwards seen on the 
wing. 
The soft parts are :— 
S', summer. Irides hazel ; bill pearly-slate-coloured ; legs 
and toes very dark brown. 
cJ, winter , and $ . Bill horn-coloured ; legs and toes 
paler.] 
76. CoLIUSPASSER ARDENS. 
Z. Sibudeni, Oct. (2); Jususie Valley, Nov., Dec. (2); 
Tv. Wakkerstroom, Mch. (1) ; Woodbush, Dec. (10) ; P. 
Tambarara, Mch., May (4). 
[c?, “ Jojo” ; ?, “ Ntaga ” of Zulus. 
The Bed-collared Widow-bird was noted from Natal and 
Zululand, the South-Eastern and North-Eastern Transvaal, 
and the Beira and Gorongoza districts of the Portuguese 
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