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plover's. Yellowish-brown in colour, it is, like the 

 rest of its genus, distinguished by the chest bands, 

 which in this instance are first white, then reddish- 

 brown. Here, too, we first saw that fine eagle, the 

 Senegal eagle {Aquila senegalla), commonly known 

 in the Colony by its Boer name, coo vogel. I think 

 this rapacious gentleman must, like ourselves, have 

 been attracted by the Namaqua partridges, for 

 he appeared above us almost simultaneously with 

 the reports of our guns. Probably he had been 

 hanging about the vicinity for some time, waiting for 

 a fair chance of a stoop. These birds, which in 

 general appearance are of a reddish-brown colour, 

 are abundant upon the karroo, and are the 

 frequent attendants of shooting-parties, when they 

 not infrequently stoop and secure a wounded bird 

 under the very eyes of the gunner. On this 

 occasion the eagle had no chance of thus snatching 

 our game from us, and after wheeling about for a 

 short time well out of range, finally betook himself 

 off with bold and rapid flight. 



We had expected to see springbok upon the 

 Camdeboo Plains, and we were not disappointed. 

 Towards eleven o'clock our guide pointed out to us 

 some whitish-looking specks upon the veldt, some 

 distance in our front. After proceeding a few 

 hundred yards farther, we could just distinguish the 

 forms of the antelopes, but they were extremely 

 wild, and bounding like india-rubber balls into the 

 air for a few strides, stretched themselves upon the 

 karroo, ventre a terre, and were quickly far out of 

 sight. There were about two hundred of them, but 

 I suppose they had been recently hunted, and we 

 never had even a chance of a shot upon this our first 



