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A Breath from the Veldt 



series of the common white- quilled black khoorhan, showing the change of 

 plumage at varying ages and seasons. Two points which struck me most 



KITWITJIES ATTACKING A WHITE-NECKED GROW 

 The plovers in the background are in their usual attitude of hovering in the air with their legs hanging downwards. 



forcibly in these bustards were the remarkable tameness and the extreme 

 noisiness and strange attitudes they displayed. 



