TRAVELLING WITH BIRDS. 59 



With chicks and troops of plucking birds there is 

 little difficulty ; the main danger is at night, when, 

 if put into a strange kraal or enclosure they are apt 

 to take a panic and rush against a fence, injuring 

 themselves. If the journey is for more than two days 

 the traveller should have a wagon or cart, carrying 

 grain and going in front ; they then become attached to 

 it, and by turning out of the road at night and camping, 

 the birds will lie quietly round and the risks of strange 

 kraals are avoided. 



Birds stand travelling very well, and will keep up 

 their 25 to 30 miles a day without feeling it ; but they 

 should not be taken out of a walk, and should be liberally 

 fed with grain, say three or four pounds a day each. 

 If the journey is short, and time is pressing, they can 

 be taken from 40 to 50 miles a day, when they can 

 be taken at a good swing for miles at a stretch down- 

 hill or on level ground, but if pushed whilst going 

 up-hill they soon knock up and become dangerously 

 distressed. 



Persons should be very careful of trying to remove 

 birds that have been long in a garden or small en- 

 closure where they do not see other stock, or wild 

 bucks ; such birds when taken out will sometimes take 

 a terrible panic, and run till they drop down dead or 

 paralysed. Such a case happened last year in Grahams- 



