GAME-BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA 



numbering up to thirty' or forty, diving and playing about, 

 and behaving very much hke Pochards. They fly weU and 

 fast, and are very good-eating. They are not difficult to shoot, 

 as they generally allow a canoe to be paddled withm range 

 before they begin to get uneasy. 



Apparently no observations have yet been made on the 

 breeding-habits of this bird. 



Of the Indian species A^. coromandelianns, Dr. Jerdon says : 

 " It breeds generally in holes in old trees, often at some 

 distance from the water, occasionally in ruined houses, 

 temples, old chimneys, and the like, laying eight to ten 

 (sometimes, it is stated, as many as fifteen) small white 

 eggs." 



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