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of heath-like scrub, a couple of acres in extent, I put up 
over twenty. Quails also abounded; walking along the 
giant forest-hog (HyJochoerus meinertzhagcni). 
A female from the Mau Plateau. 
rushy glades, half-a-dozen would spring at every step. 
These were Coturnix delegorguii, the harlequin quail, 
also the Kurrichaine button-quail. Francolins ( Franco - 
linus granti) and guinea-fowl of the helmeted Abyssinian 
