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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
and I am not sure tliat the first two notes are not the call 
of the male and the third that of the female. The alarm- 
note is a low coop,” and the bird often comes so close as it 
creeps about the bushes that shooting is impossible. 
The soft parts are :—Irides hazel; bill black; legs and 
toes dull slate-coloured.] 
202. Chlorophoneus rubiginosus. 
25. Sibudeni, Nov. (1); Ngoye, Sept. (1); Tv. Wood- 
bush, Nov., Dec. (6); Legogot, Apl. (1). 
The example from Legogot, a female shot on April 23, is 
exactly similar to C. maraisi, -described by me some years ago 
from Knysna. I have no doubt now that it is nothing but 
C. rubiginosus in the young plumage, an opinion to which I 
was inclined from the first, though I allowed for Mr. Marais' 
repeated assurances that he had shot both males and females 
in this plumage with the sexual organs fully developed. 
Mr. Grant's notes shew that he is of the same opinion as 
myself. 
[The C. maraisi of W. Sclater is, I think, nothing but the 
first complete plumage of C. rubiginosus , but young birds 
from the nest with authenticated parent birds are required 
to finally decide the question. The bird was only noticed 
in Zululand and the North-Eastern Transvaal. It is a 
forest-haunting species and unless carefully looked for can 
be easily overlooked. I could not satisfactorily determine 
the call of this bird, as I never actually saw one in the act 
of calling. 
The soft parts are :—Irides russet-brown ; bill black ; legs 
and toes pale slate-coloured. 
Of the young bird (i. e. C. maraisi) :—Irides dark brown; 
bill dark horn-coloured, pale yellowish at gape; legs and toes 
pale slate-coloured.] 
205. Chlorophoneus sulphureopectus similis. 
Reichenow, Vog. Afr. ii. p. 563. 
2k Umfolosi Station, July (1) ; Tv. Klein Letaba, 
Sept. (2). 
This subspecies can be easily distinguished from the 
