THE KALI SHAMA 63 



they vary greatly in their character, extent 

 and intensity. 



Spruce and neat in attire, jaunty and 

 gallant in movements, the Kali Shama will 

 afford pleasure to its keeper if properly 

 housed. A nimble runner and an inhabitant 



not of the close confines of woods 

 Cage-life but of open countries where the 



landscape reaches up to the hori- 

 zon — this bird would feel better in the 

 comparative spaciousness of an outdoor 

 aviary than in the cramping closeness of 

 a cage. If it can get the opportunity of 

 daily baths — both a water-bath and a sun- 

 bath — it will bear its life of captivity with 

 admirable grace. It is a bird of a sunny 

 country — rather too much sunny according 

 to its human inhabitants — and it vastly 

 enjoys the burning rays of the sun. To 

 keep it in health, it should be allovs^ed to 

 enjoy the sunshine for a considerable 

 part of the day. Give it full meals of 

 insects, because that is its proper food. But 

 it will keep as well on satoo and ghee with 



