GUINEA FOWL 



IS9 Sapsucker Woods RoiS 

 eernsll University 

 Ithaea, Kew York U^ 



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taken at Belmont, and while exposing the plate several 

 young actually hatched out. Before many hours had 

 elapsed the whole brood had left the nest. 

 The Guinea Fowl lays its eggs, pale brown in colour thickly 



ElG. 40. — Crowned Guinea Fowl, nest and eggs. 



speckled with darker pin-points, in a depression in the 

 ground under a small bush or tuft of long grass. 



It runs swiftly and does not rise very readily, conse- 

 quently shooting it in thick thorn bush is often no easy 



