52 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
cluded must have been the spur of another cock. I put up for 
the day at a Bunjara Perow, some two miles distant, and, on 
speaking to the men, found that they knew the place well, and 
one of them said that he had repeatedly watched the cocks fight- 
ing there, and that he would take me toa tree close by whence I 
could see it for myself. Long before daylight he guided me to 
the tree, telling me to climb to the fourth fork, whence, quite 
concealed, I could look down on the mound. When I got up, 
it was too dark to see anything, but a glimmer of dawn soon 
stole into the eastern sky, which I faced; soon after, crowing 
began all round ; then I made out the mound dimly, perhaps 
thirty yards from the base of the tree and forty from my perch ; 
then it got quite light, and in a few minutes later a Jungle- 
Cock ran out on to the top of the mound and crowed (fora 
wild bird) vociferously, clapping his wings and strutting round 
and round, with his tail raised almost like that of a domestic 
fowl. . . I learnt so much and no more; there was a rush, 
a yelp, the Jungle-Cock had vanished, and I found that one of 
my wretched dogs had got loose, tracked me, and was now 
careering wildly about the foot of the tree. 
* Next day I tried again, but without success. I suppose the 
birds about had been too much scared by the dog, and I had 
to leave the place without seeing a fight there; but, putting all 
the facts together, I had not the smallest doubt that this was 
the real fighting arena, and that as the Bunjara averred, many 
of the innumerable cocks in the neighbourhood did systematic- 
ally do combat there.” 
Captain Hutton says :—‘I have often reared the chicks 
under a domestic hen, and turned them loose ; but, after stay- 
ing about the house for several days, they always eventually 
betook themsclves to the jungles and disappeared. If kept 
confined with other fowls, however, they readily interbreed, 
and the broods will then remain quiet under domestication, 
and always exhibit, both in plumage and manner, much more of 
the wild than of the tame stock, preferring at night to roost on 
