Birds collected by Mr. C. Grant in South Africa. 695 
PoDICIPES FLTJVIATILIS. 
Little Grebes were not abundant on tbe lagoons of fresh 
water which occur near Shi Tao and the North-East 
Promontory. These birds breed rather late, as one fresh 
egg was obtained on July 20th, and on August 28th a 
young bird not very long hatched. 
XXVIII.— On the Birds collected by Mr. Claude H ’ B. Grant at 
various Localities in South Africa. —Part III. By W. L. 
Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. With Field-Notes by 
the Collector. 
[Continued from above, p. 437.] 
The numbers in front of the names of the Birds are those 
of the f Check-list of South-African Birds/ published by me 
in 1905 (Ann. S. Afr. Mus. iii. pp. 303-387), which is 
founded upon the four volumes of the ‘ Birds of South 
Africa 3 by myself and the late Dr. Stark. 
In order to save space the following contractions are 
used :— 
CO. = Cape Colony. Tv. = Transvaal. 
M. —Natal. P. = Portuguese East Africa. 
Z. = Zululand. 
382. Upupa africana. 
Tv. Woodbush, May, June (2) ; Legogot, May (1) ; 
P. Coguno, Aug. (2); Beira, Dec. (1). 
[The African Hoopoe has been noted from the Cape 
Peninsula (March 1903), the Eastern and North-Eastern 
Transvaal, and the Inhambane and Beira districts of Portu¬ 
guese East Africa. It appears to be a local migrant to a 
certain extent—as, for instance, at the Woodbush it was only 
observed in the winter, none being met with in the summer 
season; and at the Cape I have only seen it in the month 
mentioned, although I was there in both February and 
March and again in October. It is usually seen in pairs or 
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