22 Mr. D. F. Giltilkn oh some 



auy of the Partridojes. It is extremely local in its habit?, 

 and can generally be found at the same spot at an}' given 

 time of the day, where and when it has been found before. 

 I have never found a sufficient number of coveys to make it 

 worth a sportsmun's while to go out to hunt for it alone. 



Its food consists of small bulbs, grass-seeds, and insects. 

 I have never found its nest, although I have had it described 

 to me by friends who have found it, and they said that it 

 lays from six to eight eggs in a nest on the ground, of a cup- 

 shape, and very neatly lined with grass, generally underneath 

 a thick patch or tuft of grass. I have never found this bird 

 feeding on cultivated ground, nor have I found it south of 

 the Vaal or Orange Hivers. I have been told by sportsmen 

 in Swaziland that it will occasionally settle in a tree, but I 

 have not seen it do so myself. According to Stark and 

 Sclater, it is found from the Transvaal and Natal up to 

 Mombasa on the east coast, and was first recorded and 

 described by Sir Andrew Smith from what is now the 

 Rustenburg District of the Transvaal. 



It is a good table bird. 



The Grey Wing. {FrancoUmts afjicamts.) 

 This is the first species of Partridge I learned to know, 

 and my first lessons in shooting birds on the wing were 

 given on this bird near Steynsberg, in the Cape Colony, 

 when I was of the lesson-hating age. 



I have found these birds in the Districts of Queenstown, 

 f^radock, Steynsberg, and Middelburg in the Cape Colony. 

 At one time they were very i)lentiful on the Stormberg, 

 Queenstown, and also on the Zuurberg, Steynsberg District, 

 it being not uncommon for a single gun to shoot forty brace 

 over dogs in a day. This fact attracted many sportsmen 

 from Johannesburg, who paid big rents for the shooting, and 

 I understand that the birds have much decreased in numbers. 

 The part of the country where I have found them most 

 plentiful is in the grass-veld in the Sneeuwberg Mountains 

 between Cradock and Graaff Ueinet. In these parts they 

 were generally found among low shrubs and in the red grats, 



