xii LIST OF PLATES 



Plate. 

 Blue Quail (Excalfacioria adansoni) --____ 33 



Kurriehane Button-Quail (Turnix lepurana) ----- 34 



Natal Button-Quail {Turnix nana) --____ 35 



Hottentot Button-Quail {Turnix hottentotta) ----- 36 



Common Guinea-Fowl {Numida coronata) - - - - Fig. a. 37 



East African Guinea-Fowl {Numida mitrata) - - - - pig. 3. 37 



Damaraland Guinea-Fowl {Numida papillosa) - - - Fig. c. 37 



Crested Guinea-Fowl {Chittcra cdouardi) ----__ 33 



Yellow-throated Sandgrouse {Pteroclcs gutturalis) - - - - 39 



Spotted Sandgrouse {Plerocks variegatus) ----- 40 



Double-banded Sandgrouse {Pterocles hicinctus) - - - - 41 



Namaqua Sandgrouse {Pterodurm namaqua) ----- 42 



Speckled Pigeon or Bush-Dove {Columba phaeonota) - - - 43 

 OUve Pigeon {Columba arquatrix) -------44 



Delalande's Green Pigeon ( Vinago delalandii) ----- 45 



Spur-winged Goose {Pkctropterus gambensis) ----- 45^ 



Spur-winged Goose {Pkctropterus gambensis) ----- 46b 



Spm--winged Goose {Pkctropterus gambensis) ----- 460 



Black Spur-winged Goose {Pkctropterus niger) - - - _ 47 



Knob-billed Duck {Sarcidiornis melanonota) ----- 43 



Dwarf Goose {Nettopus auritus) -------49 



White-faced Tree-Duck {Dendroci/g7ia viduata) - - - _ 50 



Whistling Tree-Duck {Dendrocygna fulva) - _ _ .. _ 51 



Egyptian Goose {Alopochen aegyptiacus) - - _ - _ 52 



South African Sheld-Drake {Casarca cana) ----- 53.54 



Yellow-billed Duck or Geelbec {Anas undulata) - - - - 55 



Black Duck {Anas sparsa) -----___ 55 



Cape Teal {Nettion capense) -----___ 57 



Hottentot Teal {Nettion pmictatum) --____ 53 



Red-billed Pintail or Red-bill {Paecilonetta erythrorhyncka) - - 59 



European Shoveler {Spatula clypeata) ------ 60 



Cape Shoveler {Spatula capensis) ------- 61 



South African Pochard {Nyroca erythrophthalma) - - - - 62 



White-backed Duck {Thalassornis kuconota) ----- 63 



Maccoa Duck {Erismatura maccoa) ------ 64 



Hadada Ibis {Hagedashia hagedash) ----- _ 65 



