. Sketches of South African bird-life. Birds. 28 FRIENDS OP THE AGEICULTUEIST kitchen table, or grease from the wagon-wheels, whence its somewhat absurd Du tch name. It builds a nest of grass, wool and hair, under a stone or in a hole in a wall, during the months of November and December and lays three eggs of a bright blue, speckled in the form of a zone round the blunt end, with Pig. 10.—Sickle-wing Chat on nest. The Sickle-winged Chat {Emarginata sinuata) is brown above, shading into chestnut on the rump, and grey below, tinged with brown on the chest. It can easily be dis- ti
. Sketches of South African bird-life. Birds. 28 FRIENDS OP THE AGEICULTUEIST kitchen table, or grease from the wagon-wheels, whence its somewhat absurd Du tch name. It builds a nest of grass, wool and hair, under a stone or in a hole in a wall, during the months of November and December and lays three eggs of a bright blue, speckled in the form of a zone round the blunt end, with Pig. 10.—Sickle-wing Chat on nest. The Sickle-winged Chat {Emarginata sinuata) is brown above, shading into chestnut on the rump, and grey below, tinged with brown on the chest. It can easily be dis- tinguished from the FamUiar Chat, which it rather closely resembles, by the sickle-shape narrowing of the first primary. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Haagner, Alwin Karl, 1880-; Ivy, Robert Henry. Cape Town, T. M. Miller
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