GAME BIRDS PAAUW. 
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With it we close this brief sketch of the Kap- 
torial ornithology of these districts, and pass 
on to say a few words of some their feathered 
neighbours. 
The next, Game Birds claim to be the most 
prized; and of these some are well worthy of 
note. 
The first on this list certainly stands the 
" Paauw" This is the " Bustard Capensis" 
Of it there are three varieties. The Common 
or "Grey Paauw" the " Gum Paauw" and 
the "Bush," or "Tuffed" one. They are large 
heavy birds, usually weighing from thirty to 
fifty pounds. 
1. — The bodies of the first of these are usually 
about three feet nine inches long. Their span 
of wing is seven or eight feet. The head is 
about four inches and the beak three. The 
wings and tail primaries are black, with large 
white spots upon them. The tail is barred 
across. The neck and breast are white. The 
head black, with a white spot in the centre, 
and a ring of white round the neck. The 
throat and back of the neck, grey grouse and 
cinnamon colour. The secondaries of wings, 
anteriors, tail coverts, and back, mottled grouse 
and Eufus brown. The neck of this species 
is longer and thinner than in the others, and 
has less of the cinnerous tints about it. 
