GAME-BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA 



to the construction of the trachea or windpipe, which in 

 the female is convohited and modified, while in the male 

 it is straight and simple. 



Layard found this bird breeding in marshy ground close 

 to Cape Town, and describes the eggs as being like those 

 of the Ethiopian Snipe, but with yellower ground and with 

 more defined, darker markings, all of one shade. 



Anderson found it breeding near Ondonga, in Damara- 

 land ; he states that it inakes no nest, but that the eggs are 

 laid near water. Oatcs gives the measurements as 1.5 to 

 1.29 X 1.05 to 0.89 in. 



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