THE KORI AND GREAT BUSTARD 201 



We have already explained to the best of our knowledge 

 how the paauw may sometimes be approached on horse- 

 back. In certain favoured districts these great birds 

 are sometimes driven over guns placed in suitable stands. 

 But a bustard drive sounds a tallish order to any one who, 

 like ourselves, has never taken part in one or who objects 

 to capturing these grand birds otherwise than by hunting 

 them in a legitimate and sportsmanlike manner. Poach- 

 ing game appeals as little to us as it does to any good 

 sportsman. Suffice it to say that, although the ghaum 

 paauw is no longer so plentiful as it used to be in the 

 days when the Golden City was in its infancy and the 

 Rhodesian capital undreamed of even by that great 

 pioneer and statesman, Cecil Rhodes, it is by no means 

 the rara avis its European cousin the great bustard has 

 become in Great Britain. 



