msftNG i\ )YEsn:nx India. 



splendid coverts it. i J . . -y would soon become practically 



«'x(inc(. as it is, its queer broken crow is trd so frequently as 



formerly. The^ ty, and unless with th& assist- 



ance of dogs O) they arc very difficult to slioot. The 



native plan is to make a bower, near a spring, and wait patiently 

 until tlic birds come to drink; should there he more than one spring 

 in the neighbourhood, they hang pieces of cloth on the bushes to 

 frighten them hack. In this way they shoot two or three in a 

 morning, besides an occasional peacock or spurfowl and a few 

 partridges. 



They breed from March to about the middle of June, the eggs, six 

 or seven in number, occasionally more, are deposited on the ground, 

 under a bush, in a slight depression, scratched by the bird itself, lined 

 with a few dead leaves; the hen bird when leaving the nest usually 

 covers her eggs with leaves, and they are often overlooked in 

 consequence. 



The eggs vary a good deal in size, shape, and colour ; they average 

 l - 84 inches in length by rather more than 1*38 in breadth ; one type 

 is a long smooth egg, of a pale creamy- w r hitc colour, much like that 

 of the common hen ; another is much coarser, being pitted all over 

 like that of the Peafowl, of a rich deep buffy colour : these types are 

 linked together by intermediate forms ; some of them are thickly 

 speckled with brownish-red. 



The young if hatched out under a fowl, make their escape as soon 

 as they can fly, and they learn to fly very soon. 



I once shot a hybrid bird between this and the common fowl. 



Mt. Aboo, March to June.. R. B. Barnes. 



811.— THE RED SITU FOWL. 



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The Red Spur Fowl occurs in much the same localfitie the 



drey Jungle Fowl; it is however much more common. It is a perma- 

 nent n over found, breeding during the hot season, 

 that is, from the end of February to the commencement of 



The eggs, from five to eight in number, seldom more, ar< . I in 

 a hollow, .scratched for the ptirpc _ nerally in a dense ' of 



