636 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
Mr. Ayres gives the following soft parts :—TIris light hazel, 
upper mandible dusky, under one yellowish; tarsi and feet dingy 
yellowish-white.” 
608. Or1s Lupwier, Riipp. Ludwig’s Bustard. 
Eupodotis ludwigti, Layard, B. 8S. Afr. p. 284. 
This Bustard comes to us in its migrations, apparently from the 
westward; at least most of them that we have seen have been 
procured on the north-western side of Cape Town. In its habits it 
resembles the preceding species. Its eggs, two in number, are 
similar in size and appearance to those of O. phe but are usually 
of a lighter and greener ground. 
Mr. H. Jackson says that it only lays one egg, but Mr. Atmore 
writes :—‘ All the nests (if a very shallow hollow in the ground can 
be so called) that I have found have had two eggs, if they were 
incubated. I have, of course, found them with but one, but then it 
was not ‘sotten on,’ as we say in Norfolk.” 
Captain Trevelyan states that, like O. caffra, the present species 
come to the Frankfort Flats (about fifteen miles from Kingwilliams- 
town) in July and remains till about November. Mr. Ayres writes 
from the Transvaal :—“I took the eggs of this Bustard from the top 
of a low stony range of hillocks. I happened to be at a farmstead 
about thirty miles from Potchefstroom, when a young Boer told me 
he had found a Paaww’s nest; so I immediately started with him to 
the spot, rather late in the afternoon; after a smart walk of about 
five miles we came to the stony ridge, and there lay the two eggs, 
quite warm, the old bird having evidently just left the nest and crept 
away amongst the stones on our approach; they were laid on the 
bare ground, without any appearance of a nest. We sat down to 
rest for a quarter of an hour or so, when my Hottentot, whom I had 
taken with me, suddenly, but in a whisper, said that he saw the bird, 
and pointed to a spot within a few yards of us; but I could see 
nothing, so I handed him my gun, and he immediately killed the 
bird as she lay crouched amongst the stones within ten yards of us, 
and would, no doubt, there have lain until we left the place.” 
Majors Butler and Feilden and Captain Reid found this Bustard not 
at all scarce on the undulating hills near Newcastle, where it breeds. 
The crop of one shot by Feilden contained beetles and grasshoppers. 
Adult (male).—General colour of back ochraceous, profusely 
