50 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
name imports, a true denizen of the jungle, and most especially 
of jungle in the vicinity of scattered cultivation, at or near the 
bases of hills, which keep it comparatively well-watered through- 
out the year. 
“Tt is entirely wanting in the dry, level, alluvial plains, and 
semi-deserts of Upper India, and even in better-watered locali- 
ties is absent from the more richly cultivated tracts, and only 
straggles into cultivation which is in the neighbourhood of 
jungle. . . . Vertically, this species ranges from sea-level 
to 5,000 feet elevation, but, like many other species, it is 
generally to be found lower down in the cold season, and 
is rarely to be met with above 3,000 feet, except during the 
hot season. ” Jerdon says: “ The Jungle-Fowl is very 
partial to bamboo jungle, but is found as well in lofty forests 
and in dense thickets. When cultivated land is near their 
haunts, they may, during the harvest-season, and after the 
grain is cut, be seen, morning and evening, in the fields, often 
in straggling parties of ten totwenty. Their crow, which they 
give utterance to, morning and evening, all the year round, but 
especially at the pairing-season, is quite like that of a Bantam 
Cock, but shorter and never prolonged as in our domestic 
cocks. 
“When detached clumps of jungle or small hills occur in 
a jungly district where these fowls abound, very pretty shooting 
can be had by driving them by means of dogs and beaters ; 
and in travelling through a forest country, many will always be 
found near the roads, to which they resort to pick up grain 
from the droppings of cattle, &c. Dogs will often put them up, 
when they at once fly on to the nearest trees. Young birds, if 
kept for a few days, are very excellent eating, having a consider- 
able game flavour.” 
Colonel Tickell remarks :—‘“ There is no bird more difficult to 
approach, or even to see, whenin the jungle. The cocks may 
be heard of a morning or evening crowing all round, but the 
utmost precaution will not, in most cases, enable the sports- 
