28 Mr. D. F. Gilfillan on some 



the Grey Wing. I found these birds again for the second 

 time near Barberton in the Kaap District, and my impression 

 was confirmed as to their size, for altliough they may not be 

 quite as long as the Grey Wing they are generally a much 

 heavier bird. I have also shot some near East London in 

 the Cape Colony, and near Rhenosterkop in the District o-f 

 Middelburg, Transvaal. 



I have never found big coveys of Red Wing, and do not 

 remember ever having found a covey exceeding eight in 

 number, the general number being from three to five. It is 

 a handsomer bird than the Grey Wing, and, so far as I know, 

 is only found in the grass-veld o-n the mountains, and also 

 near vleis and valleys in broken country in the grass-veld, 

 and never in the Karroo districts. I have never found the 

 Red Wing in cultivated ground, nor have I seen them in th« 

 neighbourhood of Johannesburg. 



Apart from the plumage and the measurements, the true 

 Red Wing can be distinguished from the other Red Wings 

 by the fact that the mule rarely has a spur which is more 

 than a mere knob, while the male birds of the species 

 mentioned under {/>), (d), and (e) have long sharp spurs. 

 In addition the superci.iary stripe of mottled black and white 

 feathers extends down on both sides of the neck and joins in 

 the middle of the nape and runs on to the mantle, while in 

 species (d) and (e) this stripe ends on either side at the base 

 of the neck, not meeting at the back. I know very little of 

 this bird's nesting-habits. It is, in my opinion, an easier bird 

 to shoot than the Grey Wing and is a good table bird. Its 

 food is similar to that of the Grey Wing. 



The Orange River Francolin. {Francolinus gariepensis.) 

 It is called the Red Wing in the Transvaal. I have found 

 this bird in the De Kaap Valley, Barberton, near Witbank in 

 the Middelburg District, Transvaal, around Johannesburg 

 and near Vereeniging on both sides of the Vaal River, and it 

 is, I think, the bird usually found in the plains of the high 

 veld in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony. 



Its habits are very similar to those of the true Red Wing 



