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in pairs, and occasionally four or five together. It is said to feed on spiders, 

 juanttdo', and coleopterous insects, and moreover to have a wild, querulous 





FiL, 117 — The Peacock Iuogon {Trogon pavoninus). 



note, like the mewing of a cat. Its Hindustani name, Kufni clu/ri, is derived 

 from the circumstance that it generally sits with its head sunk between its 

 shoulders as if it had no neck, or as if dressed in a faquir's kiifiii. 



