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75. NuMiDA coRONATA, L. & S., B. S. Afr. p. 581. 



This species I only met when hunting large game in the 

 thorn-veldt, between the Sabi and Crocodile Rivers. When- 

 ever we got the chance we shot the birds of the year, as 

 they are particularly good eating. 



7Q. GuTTERA EDOUARDi (Hartl.) ; Grant, Cat. B. xxii. p. 382. 



I saw birds of this species alive near Barberton, but I am 

 almost certain that they had been imported from Delagoa 

 Bay, since, to my knowledge, the natives there used to bring 

 them alive to sell in Loren90 Marques, in the neighbourhood 

 of which settlement they must be common. 



77. Francolinus clamator, L. & S., B. S. Afr. p. 591. 

 Both this species and the following are indifferently 



known as " Bush Pheasants.^' I have seen them running 

 along bridle-paths near thick bush, into which they betake 

 themselves at the very first alarm. 



78. Francolinus subtorquatus, L. & S., B. S. Afr. p. 600. 



Found in more open spots, but very difficult to flush with- 

 out a good dog. It is excellent eating, as, indeed is every 

 Francolin which I have yet shot. 



79. CoTURNix coTURNix, L. & S., B. S. Afr. p. 603. 



It was generally during February that some one would 

 suddenly come into camp with the intelligence that '' the 

 Quail have come." They were seldom to be shot in any 

 numbers, save for, roughly speaking, one month after their 

 arrival, when they used to depart, as they came, by night. 



80. Crex crex, L. & S., B. S. Afr. p. 611. 

 One specimen was obtained on 26th December. 



81. Otis kori, L. & S., B. S. Afr. p. 632. 



In the tsetse-fly country, between the Sabi and Crocodile 

 Rivers, we saw a grand specimen of this bird, but we were 

 after blue wildebeest, and therefore did not fire at it. 



82. Oris LUDWiGi, L. & S., B. S. Afr. p. 636. 



On several occasions I saw this bird when I was riding 

 across the Barberton plain without a gun ; when I rode towards 



