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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
along streams and rivers or marshy places. Although 
almost exclusively a ground bird, it will sometimes perch 
on branches and in bushes and trees, especially when 
disturbed. The flight is slow and floppy and seldom long 
sustained. The call, which is more often heard in wet 
weather than in dry, and is more frequently uttered in the 
early morning, is a series of liquid notes running up and 
down the scale, not easily described, but which cannot be 
mistaken for that of any other bird. I have never succeeded 
in locating a nest. 
The soft parts are :—Irides red ; bill, legs and toes black.] 
476. Centropus superciliosus. 
P. Coguno, Aug. (1). 
This bird is a female not quite adult, which agrees in every 
respect with C. superciliosus, except that it has a single blue- 
black feather on the nape which looks as if more were 
coming and that eventually it would develop into C. burchelli ; 
but C. superciliosus undoubtedly does occur in South Africa, 
though it is by no means so common as C. burchelli. 
478. Ceuthmochares australis. 
P. Beira, Feb. (1). 
[I have only on one occasion come across this species and 
that was in a dense patch of forest within five miles of Beira. 
It was seen skulking and creeping about in some parasitic 
plants growing on one of the trees. I do not know its call, 
and it is a species that might easily be overlooked owing to 
the dense nature of the country in which it lives. 
The soft parts are:—Irides dark crimson; bill yellow, 
base of culmen black; legs and toes black.] 
479. Turacus CORYTHA1X. 
GC. Knysna, Dec., Jan,, Feb. (26); Plettenberg Bay, 
Mch. (1).' 
[“Lourie” of the Colonists; “ Gw^alagwala” of the 
Zulus. 
Curiously enough, I have only taken this Turaco in the 
Knysna district, and have heard it only in one other locality 
and that was in the Nkandhla Forest in Zululand, where it 
