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FRIENDS OP THE AGEICULTURIST 



Judging from our own experience of the two species in- 

 habiting South Africa, we should say that this is equally 

 applicable to the local birds. 



Fig. 39. — Cape Quail, nest and eggs. 



Regarding the QuaU as a locust destroyer, the investiga- 

 tions of Mr. Thomson, the then Chief Locust Officer of the 

 Transvaal Department of Agriculture, are both instructive 



