JOURNAL 



OF THE 



BOMBAY 



No. 1J 



BOMBAY, 1891. 



[Vol. VI. 



NESTING IN WESTERN INDIA. 



By Lieut. H. E. Barnes, F. Z. S. 



(Continued from page 337, Vol. V.) 



803.— THE PEACOCK. 



Pavo cristatus, Lin. 



The Peacock is not indigenous in Sind, but has been introduced, 

 and in some parts of the country appears to thrive tolerably well, 

 and is in a fair way to become naturalized. It is somewhat rare in 

 Ratnagiri, but occurs not uncommonly in all other* suitable places 

 in Western India. 



In Guzerat, and some other parts of the country where the birds 

 are considered sacred, and are in consequence protected and encour- 

 aged by the villagers, they are very tame, roosting at night in the 

 topes in the neighbourhood, or even inside the village boundaries, 

 where there are high trees. 



In those districts where, in the estimation of the people they are 

 not sacred, they are extremely wary and shy, and are most 

 difficult to bag. They occur as a rule in great numbers in the 

 groves in the neighbourhood of the temples, and are generally 

 abundant along the wooded banks of rivers, ravines, and on the hill- 

 sides where' the undergrowth is rank. 



