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tind hens indulging in little tilting combats, probably a “ love affair.” 
Like mail-clad warriors of old, a short run, a dunting skirmish and 
then a going for each other “tooth and nail.” The male birds, 
(there are seldom more than two or three males at these day light 
revelries) hardly notice this little by-play aud knots of combatants, 
they appear to take a wider sweep of life’s horizon. Size of these 
birds is about 7 inches, feathers and all, so that ; as a game-bird, it 
would hardly curl a human voracious appetite, when in the gally pot. 
A most interesting Pigmy true bustard is to be found, near Llassa, 
feeding in flocks, I am told, on the broad sandy shores or rather churs. 
This bird appears like a miniature of the lordly bustard of the 
Deccan. Twrni:: Ocellatus, has much speckled or mottled plumage, 
barred with black, more so on under parts of the body, above, brown 
and mottled ; bill slaty brown ; irides pale yellow. 
