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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
do most of the other Woodpeckers. I noted it as common 
in the forests of the Knysna, Zululand and Natal, the 
South-Eastern and North-Eastern Transvaal, but no sign 
of it appeared in the great virgin forests of Portuguese 
East Africa, although those of the Gorongoza district seem 
as well suited to its habits as those further south. It was 
observed both singly and in pairs, the cry being some¬ 
what loud, but perhaps not so harsh as that of the other 
Woodpeckers. Although I have seen this bird right through 
the summer season, I have never succeeded in observing a 
pair nesting. 
The soft parts of both sexes are:—Irides dark crimson ; 
bill, legs and toes slate-coloured. In many specimens the 
greater part of the lower mandible is pearly white.] 
443. Iynx ruficollis. 
Tv. Woodbush, May 23, 25 (4). 
Mr. GranPs notes strengthen my conclusion (B. S. Afr. 
iii. p. 143) that this bird is only a winter visitor to South 
Africa. 
[I have not observed this Wryneck elsewhere than in the 
Woodbush, North-Eastern Transvaal, where I spent some 
months from April onwards ; it was not until the latter 
end of May that this species put in an appearance, when I 
secured the only four specimens seen, after which I did not 
see or hear another. In the early morning these birds 
could be heard calling from the tops of the trees, but were 
silent throughout the rest of the day. Whether they were 
passing through on migration it is impossible to say posi¬ 
tively, but the fact that none was seen or heard before 
or after tends to that conclusion. 
The soft parts are:—Irides russet-brown ; bill, legs and 
toes pale whitish green.] 
445. Indicator major. 
Tv. Legogot, Apl. (1). 
[Only at Sibudeni in Zululand, and at Legogot, Eastern 
Transvaal, where the specimen secured was shot, have I noted 
this Honey-Guide. The specimen secured was sitting on a 
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