632 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
head ornamented with a curious tuft of wiry bristles, radiating from 
an elongated centre, each bristle about 3}” long, flat, and twisted 
throughout its entire length, one side being white, the other yellow, 
thus causing the bristle to appear ringed with white and yellow; tip 
black; beneath and behind the eye, and below the back of the chin, 
a bare red spot; outer feathers of wing white, the inner red; and 
covering them, when the wing is closed, are some elongated, decom- 
posed yellow plumes; tail black ; under parts leaden grey. Length, 
SS swing, L975 ftaile li 
Fig. Gray, Knowsl. Menag. pl. 13. 
Fam. OTIDZ. 
606. Orts Kori, Burch. Kori Bustard. 
Hupodotis Kori, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 283. , 
The “Gom-Paauw” is pretty generally distributed in favourable 
localities, open plains dotted with mimosa jungle in the northern 
and eastern parts of the colony. It is a noble bird, and when seen 
stalking about in its proper haunts, affords a sight to a hunter’s eyes 
never to be forgotten. It is migatory, as are all our Ofide, and is 
more plentiful in some years than others; their numbers depending 
on the drought of the Interior, whence they come. In habits and 
food it resembles the rest ; but it is never found far from the mimosa 
jungle that skirts the rivers. It can swallow a lizard or snake of 
considerable size; and a female shot by our late friend Mr. A. V. 
Jackson and ourselves disgorged the largest chameleon we had ever 
seen ; besides this, its crop contained a mass of locusts, small insects, 
&c. His brother, Mr. Henry Jackson, sent us the first egg of this 
species which we had ever seen: it measured—axis, 3’ 4’”; diam., 
2” 5’. It was of a pale fawn-colour, unevenly spotted and blotched 
with brown and faint purple markings of various sizes and shapes, 
chiefly at the obtuse end. He tells us that they lay two eggs, but 
Mr. Kotze says that at the Berg River they only lay one. This 
Bustard is called at Saldanha Bay ‘‘ Duive Paauw.’’ 
Capt. Trevelyan tells us, that on the Fish River he has known of one 
of these Bustards being killed which weighed 42 lb. Mr. Ayres states 
that although he has often heard of “40 lb. Bustards” being shot, 
he never saw one of anything like this weight, and a male he sent to 
