Horns 



on the habits of the chink and also on those of 

 other things. 



Do you know those queer black bulbous-looking 

 beetles one meets so commonly in desert areas, all 

 body with a small head and like unto nothing quite 

 that one meets on cultivated tracts or in forest 

 areas ? Common to all desert tracts are they, 

 for they are to be found upon the veldt and 

 elsewhere in the world. A queer insect is he, 

 and always appears to be so decidedly in earnest, 

 though he never seems to be doing any- 

 thing material nor going anywhere in particular. 

 I have lain upon the sand and watched them, but 

 have not assimilated very much about their 

 habits. What they feed upon, if, indeed, they 

 do feed, I know not. Nor where they lay their 

 eggs. The one thing about them that I do know 

 is that they are plentiful, as plentiful as the sands 

 I was going to write. 



As I was setting out on a search for the buck 

 I have above alluded to, I put up a greater bustard 

 (Eupodotis Edwardsi). A handsome bird this, but 

 assimilates to the ostrich in some of his ideas. 

 After running some 30 yards, he put his head 

 under a small tuft of grass and imagined he was 

 hidden. This he did several times as I slowly 

 advanced towards him. I did not intend shooting 

 him on the ground, and he apparently thought he 

 was unobserved. 



He is a sandy buff and mottled in colouring, 



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