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INDEX 



first hunt of, 267 ; range of, 268, 

 269 ; found in Mashonaland in 

 numbers, 269 ; specimens in Natural 

 History Museum , and Zoological 

 Gardens, 271 ; savage disposition, 

 271 ; chances of survival, 272 



Salt-pans, 191—193 ; Chukutsa, 193 



Sand-grouse, characteristics of, 27, 

 28, 29; genera and species, 30 — 33 ; 

 Pallas's, 30, 31 ; South African 

 species, " ISTamaqua partridge," 33 

 —38 ; double-banded, 33, 38 ; var- 

 iegated, 34 — 38 ; yellovp-throated, 

 34—38 ; flesh of, 38 



Secretary bird, 53 



Selous, F. C, 182, 184, 187, 221, 229, 

 244, 268, 298, 301 



Seruey, 19, 250 



Shrike, crimson-breasted, 49 ; white- 

 headed, 49 ; Smith's helmet, 54 ; 

 drougo, 61 ; number of species, 

 61 ; fiscal, 61, 62 



Smith, Sir Andrew, zoological dis- 

 coveries of, 289, 290 



Sparrow, Cape, 64 



Springbok, nearly extinct in British 

 Bechuanaland, 40 ; on salt-pans of 

 Ngamiland, 194, 195 ; their tricks 

 and graces, 196, 197 ; colouring, 

 198 ; shooting, 198 ; immense mi- 

 gration of, 295, 296; in Cape 

 Colony, 296 



Steinbok, 40, 43, 96 ; hunting with 

 foxhounds, 111, 117, 119 ; haunts 

 of, 113 



Starling, 93 ; Burchell's glossy, 49 ; 

 Buphaga africana, and B. erytho- 

 rhyncha, 54, 62, 189 



Stork, white, 44, 56 



Sun-birds, 59, 93 



Swallow, 50 



Teal, red-billed, 42, 43 

 Thrush, chat-, 60 ; rock-, 92 

 Touraco, or plantain-eater, 64 

 Trekking, 14, 15, 16, 19, 24, 25 



Trogon, QQ 



Tsesseby, fleetness of, 225 ; allied to 

 hartebeest, 233 



Yryburg, 114 



Wagons. See Trekking 



Wagtail, 60 



Warblers, 60 



Water-fowl, QQ ; in Cape Colony, 



94 

 Waxbill, 92 

 Weaver-birds, 49 ; yellow fink, 63 



93 ; white-browed, 63 ; social, 63 



nest of, 63 ; yellow reed finch, 63 



scarlet reed finch, 63, 93 

 Wheatear, 49, 60 

 Wildebeest, blue, 194, 195 ; English 



name of, 201 ; troop of, 201 ; pace 



of, 203 ; bull shot, 204, 205 ; 256 

 Woodhouse kraal, 39, 40, 41, 46 

 Woodpecker, cardinal, 65 ; Laimo- 



clon nigrithorax, 65 



Zebra, 96 ; peculiar to Africa, 151 ; 

 approaching extinction, 152 ; an- 

 cestors of, 153 — 156 ; stripings of, 

 156 ; hybrid, 157-158 ; four 

 forms of, 159 ; mentioned in his- 

 tory, 160 — 162 ; mountain zebra, 

 habitat and distribution, 163-164 ; 

 description of, 165 ; ferocity of, 

 166 ; examples at Zoological Gar- 

 dens, 167 ; pace, 168 ; Grevy's, 

 168 ; colouring of, 169 ; capture 

 of, 169 ; Burchell's, 171 ; descrip- 

 tion of, 172, 173, 177 ; pace of, 

 172 ; Chapman's variety, 173 ; 

 distribution, 173, 174 ; slaughtered 

 for skins, 174 ; in harness, 175, 176; 

 their allies, 177 ; quagga, ex- 

 tinction of, 178 — 180; descrip- 

 tion of, 178; habitat, 178, 179; 

 examples in Zoological Gardens, 

 180 ; photograph of, 180 ; former 

 abundance, 291 



