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ing time — Guides to water — Genera — Pallas's Sand- 

 grouse — Appearances in Britain — Ruthless slaughter 

 — The genus Pterocles — Its range and members — South 

 African species — "Namaqua Partridge" — Double- 

 banded Sand-grouse — Their habits — Good flight- 

 shooting — Sand-grouse in the Kalahari — Maqua Pool 

 — Immense flights — Yellow-throated and variegated 

 Sand-grouse— Eighteen brace shot — Tough skins ... 27 



CHAPTER IV 



RAMBLES IN BRITISH BECHUANALAND 



Woodhouse Kraal — Beautiful scenery — Small game 

 plentiful — Koorhaan-shooting — The veldt after rain 

 — Duck-shooting — Red-billed Teal and South African 

 Pochard — The home of the water-fowl— A White 

 Stork shot — Bush Koorhaan — A brace of Vaal Koor- 

 haan — Similarity in Bustards — Another expedition — 

 — Camp and supper — An early start — Quiet shooting 

 — Senegal Bustard — Boer encampment — Plague of 

 flies — Crimson-breasted Shrike — Other small birds — 

 The " dikkop " Plover — A thunder-storm — Game laws 39 



CHAPTER V 



NOTABLE SOUTH AFRICAN BIRDS 



Richness of the avi-fauna — Birds of prey — Game birds 

 — The Secretary Bird — Birds devoted to animals — 

 — Migratory birds — Familiar European friends — 

 Rainy season — Breeding plumage — Swallows — 

 Rollers — Bee-eaters — Sun-birds — Wheatear — Wag- 

 tails, Pipits, Thrushes, Warblers, and Chats — " Jan 

 Fredrik" — Babblers — Orioles — Flycatchers and Larks 

 — Shrikes — Crows — Starlings — Weaver-birds and 

 Finches — Bullfinches — Touracos — Hornbills — Par- 

 rots — Woodpeckers — Cuckoos — Trogons and Pigeons 

 — Storks, Cranes, and water-fowl 52 



