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the meat. During the months of November and December, it 

 forms an unrivalled dish for the Epicure in gamey flavour, and 

 an additional inducement to the sportsman to fag and find." 



This Partridge has had the name of Chickore erroneously applied 

 to it by sportsmen in Bengal, and various writers in the Indian 

 Sporting Magazines have kept up the error. Thus it is well figured 

 by George Trigger as the Chickore ; and previously a group of them 

 as the Common Chickore ; and one sportsman, on reading a correct 

 statement that the Chickore Partridge is only found in the 

 Himalayas, immediately publishes an article, stating that the 

 writer was perfectly mistaken as to the Chickore being found only 

 in the hills ; for, that he has shot many near Eajmahal, and 

 elsewhere, he himself having been deceived by the name popular- 

 ly applied to this Partridge. A bad figure of it is elsewhere given 

 as the Wood Partridge of Bengal, also a misnomer. No native 

 ever applies the name of ' Chickore to this bird, and it is to be hoped 

 sportsmen will give up applying this name to it, both as being 

 perfectly erroneous, and as misleading naturalists and others. 



The Kyah is easily reconciled to confinement, even when taken 

 old, and eats greedily of almost every thing, but having a special 

 preference for white ants. " They are" says the same writer pre- 

 viously quoted, " the most restless creatures imaginable, always on 

 the move and trying to get out at any cranny and bar of the cage. 

 Those whicii I had, called regularly at day break, sometimes in the 

 afternoon, and in the middle of the night, when there was bright 

 moonlight, and I have heard the wild ones answer them in the 

 night from the borders of the jungle." 



Probably not far from this group should come the Malayan 

 Bhizothera, founded on the Perdix longirostris of Temminck. 

 In habits it is said to resemble the Francolins, not associating in 

 coveys. Both sexes are spurred. 



The true Partriges, Perdix of most authors, {Starna of Bona- 

 parte) are not represented in India, but one species occurs on its 

 northern confines, in Thibet, Perdix Uodgsoniee, Gould, made the 

 type of the genus Sacfahj Hodgson. It is figured by Gould in the 

 Birds of Asia, pt. IX., pi. 2, and appears to be quite of the same 



