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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
and reeds in swampy localities, and has much the habits of 
a true Reed-Warbler, sliding up and down the reeds and 
seldom flying. The call is loud and harsh, and it is probably 
this bird that I have heard in most localities visited where 
swamps or reedy rivers exist. 
The soft parts are:—Irides hazel; bill, upper mandible 
dark brown, lower much paler; legs and toes brown.] 
247. SCHCENICOLA APICALIS. 
Z. Umfolosi Station, Sept. (2). 
This is a rare, or, at any rate, a very local, species in South 
Africa. The British Museum has examples only from Pine- 
town and Durban in Natal ; but it was also recorded from 
Zululand by the Woodwards and from Mashonaland by 
Marshall and Swynnerton. 
[The two birds brought home are the only specimens I 
have seen. Both were flushed in long grass growing in 
swampy ground bordering a lagoon. 
The soft parts are :—Irides pale horn-coloured ; bill, upper 
mandible dark horn-coloured, lower pale horn-coloured ; legs 
and toes fleshy.] 
249. Eremomela polioxantha. 
Tv. Klein Letaba, July (1). 
A rare bird, only known in South Africa from Swaziland 
(whence came Buckley's type), Komatipoort ( Francis , in S.A. 
Mus.), and the Umfuli River, Mashonaland [Jameson ). 
[The specimen brought home is the only one I have ever 
seen ; it was solitary, and was creeping about at the top of 
a large “ wait-a-bit" thorn-tree on the banks of the Klein 
Letaba River. 
Soft parts not recorded.] 
252. Eremomela scotops. 
Tv. Klein Letaba, Aug., Sept. (6) ; P. Tambarara, Mch. 
a)- 
[This Bush-Warbler was noted in the “ bush veld" of 
the North-Eastern Transvaal, where it was common, and the 
single specimen was taken from a small flock in the 
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