SPORT IN MOZAMBIQUE 



The skin is much valued by the Kafirs, who make 

 from it belts, bags, and dancing ornaments. In 

 different dialects it is called the morimba, the 

 m'fthezutre, or the simba. 



If I have been somewhat unlucky with regard to 

 big game, I am more fortunate in my collections of 

 birds, since from this district alone I have been able 

 to prepare and despatch eighty-eight kinds of birds 

 of particular interest. 



But in addition to those species that I shoot for 

 scientific purposes, there are others which I collect 

 for food, for the scarcity of animals obliges me to fall 

 back on birds. Unfortunately Kafirs and Europeans 

 together have exterminated the guinea-fowl, the best 

 of the African game-birds, in Manica. There remains, 

 however, the francolin, or so-called partridge, of which 

 there are two kinds, the partridge of the plain and the 

 rock-partridge. About the size of a red partridge, 

 the latter has its swiftness of flight and fondness of 

 suddenly rising. In the morning and evening, when 

 they go to drink, these partridges betray their presence 

 by a characteristic whistling. The Kafirs distinguish 

 this variety by the name of ouimbiro. It is the rarer 

 of the two. More widely spread is the plain par- 

 tridge, sometimes wrongly called a pheasant, for it 

 resembles the latter neither in appearance or habits. 

 This bird, which I have encountered everywhere, is 

 seen in smaller flocks than the former. In the 

 morning twilight the francolin calls, and although you 



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