ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Colony of Malagashes on Bird Island - - . - 200 

 (i) Hammerkop, or Paddevanger ; (2) The Darter, or Snake 



Bird ..----. 205 



Cattle Egret - - - - - - - 210 



(i) (jreat White Heron ; (2) Little Egret - - - 215 



The Heron - - - - - - - 221 



The Wood Ibis ------- 227 



The P'lamingo ------- 233 



(i) South African Shelduck, or Berg Eend ; (2) Egyptian 



Goose, or Berg Gans - - - . . 238 

 The Cape Shoveller Duck . - . - . 243 

 (i) Red-Eyed Dove ; (2) The Cape Quail - - - 248 

 (i) The Red-Necked Pheasant; (2) The Cape Redwing- 

 Partridge ------- 253 



(i) Black Crake ; (2) Lesser Moor Hen - - - 258 



Red-Knobbed Coot .---.. 263 

 (i) The Black Stork; (2) The White Stork, or Great Locust 



Bird ------- 268 



The Crowned Crane, or Maheni ----- 273 



Giant Bustard, or Gom Paauw ----- 278 



Barrow's Knorhaan, or Bustard ----- 283 



Blacksmith Plover - - - - - - 288 



River-side Scene near Maritzburg, Natal ; (i) Solitary Snipe ; 



(2) Painted Snipe ------ 292 



(i) The Crowned Lapwing, or Kiewitje ; (2) The Curlew - 298 



(i) The Avocet ; (2) The Greenshanks - - - - 303 



(i) A Jackass Penguin ; (2) Rock-Hopper Penguin - - 309 

 Domesticated Ostriches on a Karoo Farm - - -3^3 



Specimen of Hen Ostrich in Port Elizabeth Museum - - 319 



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