GAME-BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA 



and the place resounded with their clear, loud call of 

 " Chock-lit, chock-lit, chock-lit." If scared when sitting 

 they utter a confused " Gug-gug-gug " note, and when once 

 fairly on the wing break into their " Chock-lit " note. 



All Sandgrouse give good driven shots if the gunner is 

 content to lie well out in the veldt at least two hundi'ed yards 

 from their watering-places, as they have then not begun to 

 slacken speed to pitch at the water. Shooting them near 

 the water I consider mere poaching and butchery. 



Layard describes the eggs as pale dull greenish-brown 

 spotted with light brown and indistinct purple, and further 

 spotted with dark brown. 



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