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ORNAMENTS OF THE VELD 



Its flesh is excellent eating, and the bird forms no mean 

 item in the sportsman's bag, both in the scrub of the 

 Orange River Colony veld, and in the plantations along 

 the Band. 



FIG. 96. Cape Dikkop's eggs. 



It lays two eggs of a greyish colour spotted and blotched 

 with dark and light brown, and measuring about 2 ins. by 

 ! ins. ; these are deposited in a mere depression in the 

 ground. 



The Water Dikkop (CE. vermiculatus) is slightly smaller 

 than the Bush Dikkop, and has the back vermiculated 

 with dusky; feathers with black shaft streaks. Under- 



