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" any rate, I have never once seen the feathers of sonnerati 

 " strewed about, as I have those of ferrugineus in Burma. 



" Their great timidity and watchfalness result in their 

 " yielding much less sport than the Eed Jungle-fowl. You 

 ■' may get these latter in standing crops and in many other 

 " similar situations without any extraordinary precautions, but 

 " the Grey Jungle-fowl never goes more than a few yards inside 

 " the fields, and if a stick cracks, or a sound is heard anywhere 

 " within 50 yards, he vanishes into the jungle, whence it is 

 " impossible to flush him. Only when beating the narrow 

 " well defined belts of tree jungle that run down the ravines 

 •' on the hill sides in the Nilgiris, and which we there call 

 " 'sholas,' is anything like real spot to be got out of them. 

 " Then indeed the gam at the tail end of the shola may get 

 " three or four good shots in succession, as they rise at the 

 " end of the cover and fly ofi" with a strong well-sustained 

 " flight to the next nearest patch. Even thus, working hard 

 " and beating shola after shola, a man will be lucky to bag 5 

 " or 6 brace in a day. 



" The reason is, that all the well-defined sholas which can 

 " be thoroughly beaten are in the higher parts of the hills, 

 " where the birds are comparatively rare, while, when you get 

 " lower down, where the birds are plentiful, the jungles are so 

 " large that they cannot be effectively worked. If you merely 

 " want to liill the birds, you might get perhaps 10 or a dozen 

 " in a short time poking along some of the roads, but they 

 " afford no sport thus, only a series of pot shots. 



" I remember once watching an old cock that my dogs had 

 " driven up into a tree. For some time I peered round and 

 " round (the tree was a large and densely-foliaged one) 

 " without being able to discover his whereabouts, he all the 

 " while sitting silent and motionless. At last my eyes fell 

 " upon him, that instant he hopped silently on to another 

 " bough, and from that to another, and so on with incredible 

 " rapidity, till, reaching the opposite side of the tree, he flew 

 " out silently, of course never giving me a chance at a shot. 



" As for food, they seem to eat almost anji^hing ; grain, 

 ■' grass seed, grubs, small fruits and berries, and insects of 

 " different kinds. I have sometimes killed them with 

 " nothing but millet in their crops ; at other times quantities 

 " of grass seeds, or again, after the grass has been recently 

 " burnt, the tender, juicy shoots of the new grass." 



Gallus lafayetti. 



G alius laf ay etti. — Less. Traite d'Orn., p. 491(1831); Des Murs. Icon. 

 Orn. p]. 18 ; Elliot Mon. Phas. ii., p. 33 (1873) ; Hume X. and E. Md. B. 

 p. 530 (1875) ; Hume and Marshall, Game B. Ind. i., p. 241, pi. ; Hume, 



