OTIS 299 



Eupodotis ludwigi, La-yard, B. 8. Afr. p. 284 (1867) ; id. 



p. 75 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 299 ; Butler, Feilden and Reid, Zoologist, 

 1882, p. 340. 



Neotis ludwigi, Sliarpe, Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 299 (1894) ; Woodward 

 Bros. Natal B. p. 175 (1899); Oates, Cat. B. Eggs, ii, pp. 87, 366 

 (1902) ; Sliarpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 15 [Deelfontein] . 

 . " Iseme " of Natal Zulus (Woodward). 



Description. Adult Male. Crown and sides of the head and 

 front part of the neck down to the chest where this colour ends in 

 a point, brown ; a white patch on the occiput and a mottling of the 

 same colour on chin and throat ; sides and back of the neck white ; 

 this white continuing on either side of the brown to the under 

 surface of the body, which is entirely white ; a more or less triangular 

 patch at the base of the neck behind tawny-rufous ; back, rump, 

 tail and wings dark brown, vermiculated with pale sandy-rufous, 

 most of the feathers of the back with an arrow-shaped patch of the 

 same colour ; on the coverts this sandy-rufous becomes white and 

 white tips are present on most of these feathers ; wing-quills brown, 

 some with more, some with less white, chiefly on the inner webs 

 and at the bases ; edge of the wing white, tail-feathers like the back 

 but with four black cross-bands more or less distinctly indicated ; 

 below, including the axillaries and under wing-coverts pure white. 



Iris greyish-brown, bill blackish-horn, white toward base of 

 lower mandible ; tarsus and feet greenish-white. 



Length about 39-0; wing 21-5; tail9'75; culmen 2-20; tarsus 

 5-0. 



The female is somewhat similar but much smaller ; there is no 

 white occipital patch, but the brown round the eye and on the 

 chest is considerably mottled and freckled with white ; wing 17'5 ; 

 culmen 2-05 ; tarsus 4-25. An individual shot by Butler weighed 

 7^ Ibs., the wing measuring 19. 



Distribution. Ludwig's Paauw is apparently generally distri- 

 buted over the greater part of Cape Colony, Orange Eiver Colony, 

 Southern Transvaal and the upper part of Natal, but owing to the 

 fact that the distinctions between it and 0. caffra have not been 

 generally recognised by sportsmen and collectors a little uncer- 

 tainty still prevails as to its exact range. It seems to be subject 

 to partial migratory movements, as it is stated to be found on the 

 Erankfurt flats near King William's Town only between the months 

 of July and November, while it usually comes to the south-western 

 districts and near Cape Town only during the months of November, 

 December and January. 



