xxx GAME BIRDS FOR SPORT AND POT 
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Bustards vary from the great bustard or pauw down 
to various varieties of Koorhaun. None are capable 
of providing much sport, but all are prized for the pot. 
The great bustard is a magnificent bird, and appa¬ 
rently knows it. An old cock will weigh 35 to 40 lb. 
—some people, indeed, put them much higher ; and 
when two or three are strutting about on a bare plain, 
they have an appearance of conceit beside which the 
peacock is almost modest. When molested at all they 
are very shy, and can only be obtained with a rifle. 
Distributed over all the great plains, the species used 
to be especially common on the great Athi ; I am sorry 
to see lately a great diminution. Perhaps at the 
present day there are more along the plains which 
border the western slopes of Kenia than anywhere 
else in the Protectorate. 
Francolin are present in great variety, and it is to 
them and to the guinea-fowl that the settler usually 
looks for his Sunday’s sport and his week-day’s 
dinner. 
The following francolins are found, and the list is 
probably not yet complete : Jackson’s, Gedge’s, Coqui, 
Hubbard’s, Grant’s, Kirk’s, Uluensis, Streptophorus> 
Elgonensis , Kikuyuensis , Hildebrandt’s, Schuett’s, 
Humboldt’s, Pternistes cranchi , Pternistes boehmi , and 
the Spurfowl. 
This is a long list, but for actual purposes it may be 
reduced to the ubiquitous spurfowl, of which perhaps 
twenty are killed to one of all the other varieties put 
together. This fine bird, which may be distinguished 
by his bare yellow throat and his upright carriage, 
is widely distributed throughout the Protectorate. 
Wherever there is cultivation, along the edges of 
streams or swamps, or in low scrub along a forest, you 
