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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
The soft parts are :— 
S . Irides orange-yellow; bill black; legs and toes slate- 
colonred. 
? . Irides pale yellow ; bill, upper mandible blackish, 
lower whitish horn-coloured ; legs and toes paler slate- 
coloured.] 
196. Dryoscopus rufiventer. 
CC. Table Mt. slopes, Jan., Feb. (2); Durban Rd., 
Mch., Sept. (4) ; Knysna, Jan., Apl. (2) ; Plettenberg Bay, 
Feb. (1); Z. Ngoye Forest, Sept. (2); Tv. Woodbush, 
Jan., June, Nov. (4) ; Legogot, May (1) ; P. Coguno, 
Aug., Sept. (2). 
The examples from Coguno are both females and should 
perhaps be referred to the tropical form D. rufiventer hybridus 
recognised by Reichenow, if it can really be separated ; but 
the Coguno females exactly match females from Durban Rd. 
Zwart-Canaribyter 99 of Colonists. 
This Shrike was commonly noted from the Cape Peninsula, 
the Knysna, Zululand, the Eastern and North-Eastern 
Transvaal, and the Inhambane district of Portuguese East 
Africa. It frequents forests and well-timbered country, and, 
except when young are about, is found in pairs. It feeds 
principally on coleopterous insects, and never, I believe, 
attacks small biids. 
The whistle-call hoo-hoo 99 of the male, followed im¬ 
mediately by the answering call of “ ku-ee 93 of the female, 
at once betrays its presence. It is skulking in habits, and 
the flight, when indulged in, is of short duration. 
The soft parts are :—Irides hazel ; bill black; legs and 
toes slate-coloured. 
In the young, the bill is brownish black.] 
198. Laniartus major mossambicus. 
F. Beira, Nov., Dec., Jan. (4); Tete, Aug. (3). 
The characters of the various subspecies of Laniarius major 
are by no means constant, but on the whole the Beira and 
Tete Shrikes seem referable to this form. 
[This species was found only in the Beira, Gorongoza, 
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