On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa with studies in bird-life (1908)
Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929, Gough, George P., former owner. DSI, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Edward Arnold · leaf 271
197 and raining — spoor showed that a big herd had passed the bluff close by, apparently only a few minutes before ; followed on and again got close in — could hear them grazing and grunting, apparently within fifty to eighty yards ; but no chance to see, much less shoot. Towards dawn fell in… … GREAT GROUND-HORNBILLS, ALARMED BY A PASSING EAGLE. these were great ground-hornbills (. Bucorvus cafer), big birds like turkeys, with red pendent wattles, strutting towards us. It was curious to observe how they squatted low to earth when a pair of Bateleur eagles passed over¬ head on their way to…
Big game hunting · Bird watching
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