OTIS I.UDWIGI. 



LUDWIG'S PAAUW. 



(Plate 2.) 



Otis ludwigii, Riippell, Mus. Senckenb., ii, p. 223, tab. xiv-(1837) ; 

 Sharpe's ed. Layard Birds of S. Afr., pp. 636, 854 (1875-84) ; 

 Nicolls & Eglington, Sportsman in S. Afr., p. 114 (1892) ; 

 Reichenow, Vogel Afrikas, i, p. 246 (1900-01) ; Sclater, Ann. 

 S. Afr. Mus., ni, p. 357 (1905) ; Sclater & Stark, Birds of S. Afr., 

 IV, p. 298 (1906). 



Neotis ludwigi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, p. 299 (1894) 

 Woodward, Natal Birds, p. 175 (1899). 



Local Name. — " Iseme " of Natal Zulus (Woodward). 



Description. The bird figured is an adult male ; length about 

 39 in. The female is similar, but much smaller, and has no 

 white occipital patch, and the brown round the eye and on the 

 chest is considerably mottled and freckled with white. An 

 individual shot by Butler weighed 74 lb. 



Distribution. Ludwig's Paauw is generally distributed over Cape 

 Colony, the Orange River Colony, southern Transvaal and 

 upper Natal, but there seems to be much imcertainty as to its 

 exact range, as it is usually confused with Otis cafra (the Stanley 

 Bustard or Veld Paauw). 



Like the other big Bustards, Otis ludwigi is a partial migrant, 

 and usually visits the south-western districts and the flats near 

 Cape Town during the months of November, December, and 

 January only, and I have seen it near Bloemfontein in the 

 months of July, August and the beginning of September. 



I have shot it on the Kenia flats in British East Africa, where 

 it is by no means uncommon. 



According to Mr. Wood this is the only Bustard which 

 visits East London, and he states that it does not come 

 every year. 



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