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and the back is barred with black, grey, and white. 

 The wings are variegated with black and yellow 

 spots or eyes, and, with the tail, have black wavy 

 cross bars. This beautiful bird is slightly smaller 

 than the common Cape snipe, and the female is, 

 curiously enough, even more beautifully coloured 

 than the male. The eye stripe in the hen bird is 

 white instead of yellow, and the neck and breast 

 are reddish brown instead of grey brown ; the wings 

 are greenish. 



In addition to this considerable catalogue of 

 sporting birds, there are rails, plovers, wild geese, 

 widgeon, wild duck, and teal to be found abundantly 

 in various parts of the Cape Colony. 



Wanderers in search of health or sport, or of 

 health and sport combined, will find, within nineteen 

 days of our own shores, a country rich in scenes of 

 changing and romantic beauty, and one of the most 

 health-giving climates of the world ; rich — wondrously 

 rich — in its flora and fauna. One only drawback I 

 know of — the average accommodation is, though 

 sufficing for rough-and-ready sportsmen, at present 

 primitive, and at times rude. But even in this 

 respect the Colony is improving, and it will improve 

 more rapidly as demands increase. 



