GUINEA FOWL 



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town : prior to that they had aol been seen for soniu years. 

 Recently they have gradually increased again. The nest 

 photographed was taken at Belmont, and while exposing 

 the plate several young actually hatched out. Before many 

 hours had elapsed the whole brood had left the nest. 



Fig. 43. — Crowned Guinea fowl, nest and eggs. 



The Guinea fowl lays its eggs, pale brown in colour thickly 

 speckled with darker pin-points, in a depression in the 

 ground under a small bush or tuft of long grass. 



It runs swiftly and does not rise very readily, conse- 

 quently shooting it in thick thorn bush is often no easy 



