INDEX 



AndehsS(>n, C. J. , i 



183, 294 

 Avocet, 56 



60,73,76,82,85, 



Baldwin, W. C, 298 



Barutse, natives, 21 



Bechuanas, notes on, 19, 20 



Bee-eaters, 58 ; rufous-winged, 59 ; 

 Merops bullocko?des, 59 



Birds, of prey, seventy species, 53 ; 

 attendant on animals, 54, 55, 56, 

 189 ; migrating to and from 

 Europe, 56 ; breeding, plumage of, 

 57 ; in Cape Colony, 97 ; abimdauce 

 of, 66, 92, 93 



Blaauwbok, 96 



Blesbok, 40, 286, 291 



Boers, encampment of, 48, 206, 207 ; 

 hide hunting, 206—212, 293 ; early 

 hunters, 286, 287 ; emigrant, 291, 

 292 



Bontebok, near extinction, 273 ; a 

 remarkable antelope, 273; resem- 

 blance to blesbok, 273 ; appearance, 

 273, 274 ; dangerous when wound- 

 ed, 274 ; present habitat, 275 ; no 

 living specimen in Europe, 275 ; in 

 Natural History Museum, 275 ; 

 singular beauty of coat, 276; for- 

 mer abundance, 276, 277, 286; 

 exterminated by Boers in Orange 

 Free State, 277 ; troop preserved 

 near Cape Agulhas, 277 ; a troop in 

 motion, 278 



Bullfinch, yellow, 64 



Bunting, orange-shouldered, plum- 

 age, 57 



Burchell, Dr., discoveries by, 182, 

 289 



Bush lory, 93 



Bushmen, Masarwa, good hunters, 

 202 



Bustard, 40 ; black and white, 41, 

 45, 46, 47 ; rufous-crested or bush 

 koorhaan, 44, 47 ; Vaal koorhaan, 

 45 ; Riippell's, 45 ; Senegal, 47 



Canary, Berg and Cape, 92 



Cape Colony, neglected, 95, 97 ; 

 charms of, for the ornithologist 

 and sportsman, 98 ; flowers in, 98 



Carringtou, Sir Frederick, and fox- 

 hounds, 110, 120—126 



Courser, general characteristics, 79, 

 80 ; number of species in South 

 Africa, 87 ; Burchell's, description 

 and habits, 22, 23 ; colouring of, 

 84,86; violet-winged, 80—84; mea- 

 surements. 84 ; double-banded, 84 ; 

 Heuglin's, 85; Senegal, 23, 84; 

 colouring of, 86 



Crow, pied and ring-neck, 62 ; corn- 

 land, 62 



Cuckoo, number of species, 65 ; as 

 honey-guide, 65 ; Klaas's, 65, 92 ; 

 golden, 65, 92 ; Didric,65, 91 ; " Le 

 Coucou Criard," 91 ; " Nieuwjaars- 

 vogel," 92 ; European, 92 



Cumming, Gordon, 257, 268, 291, 

 294, 295 



Dikkop. See Plover 



Doves, Senegal, 35 ; Namaqua, and 

 emerald-spotted, 66, 91; in Cape 

 Colony, 91 



Duyker, 40, 96 ; hunting with fox- 

 hounds, 111, 117 ; haunts of, 113 



Eland, former abundance in Cape 

 Colony, 213, 217, 286; its last 

 sanctuary, 214 ; native hunters and, 

 214, 216; still plentiful in North 

 Kalahari, 215 ; protection, 215 ; 

 easily shot, 217; flesh and skin of, 



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