GAME-BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA 



aviary was so thick that I did not risk searching for him and 

 perhaps disturbing him. On March 24th I found him waiting 

 at tlie aviary door with a newly-hatched chick under him, 

 wliich he fed on some huge meal-worms. The next morning, 

 when I went to look at him, I found three chicks under him, 

 so that he must have gone back to the nest and hatched 

 these off during the night. On the 26th, to my great surprise, 

 I found a fourth chick with him. He was the only male I 

 possessed, so that there could have been no question of the 

 young having been hatched by different males. Tliree of 

 these chicks he brought up successfully. 



The nest is merely a small depression in a tuft of herbage, 

 and is thickly lined with grass. Four eggs are the normal 

 clutch. They measure about .89 by .69 in., and are abruptly 

 pointed, of a dirty-green coloured ground, speckled with fine 

 spots of dirty-purple, light and dark brown. 



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