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HOTTENTOT TURNIX. 



found in the vicinity of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 but is there extremely scarce ; though among the 

 mountains of the Auteniquois Hottentots, towards 

 the bay of Plettemberg, it is very abundant : it 

 lives on the wild herbs of the desert : the female 

 deposits eight eggs of a dirty white ; and she 

 differs from the male in being more dingy in 

 colour." 



