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  88. 
  Bryden 
  on 
  South- 
  African 
  Birds. 
  

  

  [Gim 
  and 
  Camera 
  iu 
  Soulheru 
  Africa 
  ; 
  a 
  year 
  of 
  wanderings 
  in 
  

   Bechuanaland, 
  the 
  Kalahari 
  Desert, 
  and 
  the 
  Lake 
  River 
  country, 
  Ngami- 
  

   land, 
  with 
  notes 
  on 
  Colonization, 
  Natives, 
  Natural 
  History, 
  and 
  Sport. 
  

   By 
  PI. 
  Anderson 
  Bryden. 
  8vo. 
  London 
  : 
  Stanford, 
  1893.] 
  

  

  The 
  author 
  of 
  ' 
  Kloof 
  and 
  Karroo' 
  — 
  a 
  well-known 
  autho- 
  

   rity 
  on 
  sporting 
  in 
  South 
  Africa 
  — 
  after 
  a 
  stay 
  of 
  some 
  

   months 
  in 
  Bechuanaland 
  iu 
  1890, 
  made 
  a 
  grand 
  hunting-tour 
  

   northwards 
  across 
  the 
  Kalahari 
  Desert 
  to 
  the 
  hanks 
  of 
  the 
  

   Botletli 
  River. 
  Mr. 
  Bryden's 
  narrative 
  contains 
  constant 
  

   references 
  to 
  birds, 
  and 
  whole 
  chapters 
  devoted 
  to 
  Natural 
  

   History. 
  At 
  a 
  salt-pan 
  near 
  Morokweng, 
  in 
  the 
  South 
  

   Kalahari, 
  he 
  met 
  with 
  j^gialitis 
  tricollaris, 
  " 
  that 
  tiny 
  Plover 
  

   known 
  up-country 
  as 
  the 
  ' 
  Sea-cow 
  bird,' 
  from 
  its 
  habit 
  of 
  

   constantly 
  attending 
  the 
  hippopotamus." 
  "Many 
  kinds 
  of 
  

   African 
  game,'' 
  he 
  says, 
  ''have 
  some 
  special 
  attendant 
  

   feathered 
  friends, 
  who 
  free 
  them 
  of 
  parasites, 
  gently 
  titillate 
  

   their 
  skins, 
  and 
  warn 
  them 
  of 
  danger." 
  

  

  Further 
  north, 
  near 
  Kolobeng, 
  Mr. 
  Bryden 
  entered 
  the 
  

   range 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  peculiar 
  of 
  the 
  Touracous, 
  known 
  

   to 
  the 
  natives 
  as 
  the 
  " 
  Moochooey 
  " 
  or 
  " 
  Mukuey," 
  and 
  to 
  

   naturalists 
  as 
  Schizorhis 
  concolor. 
  This 
  bird, 
  which 
  is 
  

   noticeable 
  by 
  its 
  unrelieved, 
  dull, 
  drab 
  colouring, 
  its 
  long 
  

   tail, 
  elevated 
  cockatoo-like 
  crest, 
  and 
  harsh 
  screaming 
  cry, 
  

   is 
  common 
  in 
  North 
  Bechuanaland, 
  and 
  especially 
  so 
  among 
  

   the 
  great 
  trees 
  on 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  Crocodile 
  River. 
  Its 
  

   startling, 
  human-like 
  cry 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  very 
  remarkable. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  Botletli 
  River, 
  which 
  was 
  then 
  in 
  flood, 
  the 
  

   travellers 
  were 
  able 
  to 
  feast 
  their 
  eyes 
  " 
  on 
  a 
  scene 
  of 
  

   incredible 
  charm, 
  acres 
  upon 
  acres 
  of 
  water 
  all 
  black 
  with 
  

   waterfowl." 
  These 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  birds 
  of 
  Ngarailand 
  are 
  

   described 
  in 
  a 
  special 
  chapter. 
  Another 
  chapter 
  is 
  devoted 
  

   to 
  the 
  " 
  game-birds" 
  of 
  Bechuanaland 
  — 
  Guinea-fowls, 
  Fran- 
  

   colins. 
  Bustards, 
  Quails, 
  and 
  Sand-Grouse. 
  It 
  is 
  interesting 
  

   to 
  learn 
  that 
  even 
  in 
  this 
  newly-acquired 
  territory 
  game-laws 
  

   have 
  been 
  enacted 
  for 
  the 
  preservation 
  of 
  these 
  birds 
  during 
  

   the 
  breeding-season. 
  

  

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