NAME INDEX 295 



Larks, 199-201 



Dark-naped, 200 



Grey-backed, 200 



Chestnut-backed, 200 



Rufous-headed, 200, 201 

 Limicolse, 262-263 



Plovers iq.v.) 



Black Oyster-catcher, 262 



Sandpipers, 263 

 Locust-Birds, 10-14 



Wattled Starling (Klein Springhaan Vogel), 10, 11 ; nests of, 10 



Pratincoles (Red-winged and Black-winged), 12 ; method of attacking 

 locusts, 12 



White Stork (of German " baby " fame), 13 ; a migrant, 14 



White-bellied Stork, 14 



/See Francolins, 206-210 

 Locusts, 10, 12, 14 ; birds that destroy, 10-14 and passim, 206-210, 243 

 Longolaws, 201-202 



Orange-throated (Cut-throat Lark ; Kalkoenkje), 201 



Yellow-throated, 202 



Pink-throated, 202 

 Lourie. See Plantain-eaters 



Marabou Stork, 8 



Mousebirds, or Colies (Muisvogel), 87-88 ; great fruit-thieves, 87 ; 

 origin of name, 87 



Speckled, 87 



White-backed, 88 



Red-faced, 88 



Nightjars, 42-45 



Standard-winged, 42 

 South African, 42, 43 

 Rufous- cheeked, 44 

 European, 44 



Orioles, 154-156 



Golden Oriole, 154 



Black-headed Oriole, 155, 156 ; a partial migrant, 156 

 Ornaments of the veld, 196-227 

 Ostrich, the, 224^227 ; its value when domesticated, 225 ; numbers 



still wild, 226 ; diseases, 226 

 Owls, 60-70 



Bam (Dood- vogel), 60, 61 ; superstition respecting, 60 



Grass, 61, 62 ; its name, 63 



White-faced, 63, 64 



