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and can be heard a long way off; it is harsh, ear-piercing, and 

 high-pitched, and runs : — ' Chik-a-chik ! ' — ' Chik-a-chik! ' 

 — ' Chik-a-chik ! '—' Chik-a-chik ! '—' Chik ! '—' Chik ! '— 

 * Chik ! ' — ' Chik ! ' — the notes being drawn out longer and 

 LONGER, and going higher and higher, until they terminate in 

 a shrill shriek. 



"The Anyanja, and most of the people of the southern 

 part of the Protectorate, know the bird as ' Chikwelikwezi ' ; 

 the tribes to the north-western half of Lake Nyasa, such as 

 the Wahenga, Wankamanga, and Watumbuka, know it as 

 ' Chikweyukweyu ^ — both names being derived from the 

 bird's call. 



" From the nature of the cover it frequents, the Ocellated 

 Francolin is not easily shot — I mean it cannot be shot in any 

 great numbers : those I have killed myself have been shot 

 either on the ground or in the trees after they have flown 

 up to roost. 



" I have shot many in my time, one here and one there ; 

 but I cannot recollect having ever shot one on the wing. 



" Many are the opportunities one has of getting shots at 

 them, when one is waiting-in, or stalking noiselessly through, 

 thick cover — say in search of bush-buck or red river-hogs ; 

 then, however, it is not worth one's while to fire. 



" The specimen now presented to the British Museum is 

 a male, shot by myself in a dense belt of scrub in Henga, 

 about 3300 feet altitude, some 3^ days' journey S.W. of 

 Deep Bay, in June 1895." 



ExcALFACTORiA ADANsoNi (Vcrr.), Ogilvic Grant, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 255 (1893); id. 'Game Birds,' i. p. 197 

 (1895). 



Although Adanson's Quail is a widely-distributed species, 

 met with all over Africa south of about 5° north latitude, 

 it appears to be everywhere rather rare, though no doubt it is 

 frequently overlooked on account of its very diminutive size. 



Mr. Crawshay's gift includes a male of this species, and is 

 accompanied by the following note : — 



" Adanson's Quail is by no means plentiful in British 



