On tJte Breeding of the Kiirrichaine Button Quail. 19 



scattered scrub bordering this water-conrso or along the old 

 lands. 



18. Feancolinus natalensis. Natal Francolin. 

 Scarce at Jericho, but fairly common at Buffelsdraai in the 



dense bush along the Aapies liiver. 



19. Francolinus SKPHiEXA. Crowned Francolin. 



We did not come across this pretty sj)ecies at Jericho, but 

 shot several in the thick bush along the Aapies lliver at 

 Buffelsdraai. 



20. Francolinus coqui. Coqui Francolin or S\vemi)ie. 

 Saw three or four covies in the thick bush at Jericho. 



21. CoTURNix coTURNix AFRICANA. African Quail. 

 We flushed a fair number at Jericho, in the old lands. 



VI. — On the Breeding of the Kurrichaine Button Quail 

 (Turnix lepurana) in Captivitij. By F. E. 0. MoES. 



During the early part of Nov. 1912 a little native girl 

 brought me four eggs, of a greenish-grey colour with reddish- 

 brown spots, about half the size of a common pigeon's egg. I 

 did not recognise the eggs and took them for those of some 

 species of Lark. One of the eggs was cracked, so I gave it 

 to a Crow to eat. When tlie G'row broke open the egg, I 

 noticed that it had incubated for about five or six days. The 

 other three eggs I decided to put into an incubator in which 

 were fowls' eggs, due in eight days' time. I took a small 

 cardboard box which I half filled with fine sand, on this I 

 placed the three eggs and put the whole into the incubator 

 on a piece of wood, in order to bring these small eggs to the 

 same level as the fowds' eggs. I subsequently treated them in 

 the same manner as the fowls^ eggs. On the day the fowl 

 chicks emerged from the shells, I heard very faint " peeping '' 

 in the incubators, but could only see through the glass door 

 of the incubator that all three eggs were pecked in the usual 

 manner, so I expected to see some young Larks come out of 



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