16 FRIENDS OF THE AGRICULTURIST 



of South Africa. It is abundant in the Cape Colony, Upper 

 Natal, Orange Free State and Transvaal, becoming scarce 

 in Ehodesia and German South-West Africa. The confiding 



Pia. 5. — Young Long-tailed Wagtail in nest. 



little Quickstertje, in its soft grey coat, is too well known 

 to need any description whatever. 

 It is a familiar figure in the neighbourhood of any farm- 



