72 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
grounds, but personally I have never seen a bird dancing in 
them, but have always found the proprietor either seated 
quietly in, or moving backwards and forwards slowly about, 
them, calling at short intervals, except in the morning and 
evening, when they roam about to feedand drink. ‘The males 
are always to be found at home, and they roost at night on 
some tree quite close by. 
“They are the most difficult birds I know of to approach 
A male is heard calling, and you gradually follow up the sound, 
taking care not to make the slightest noise, till at last the bird 
calls within a few yards of you, and is only hidden by the 
denseness of the intervening foliage. You creep forward, 
hardly daring to breathe, and suddenly emerge on the open 
space, but the space is empty; the bird has either caught sight 
of, or heard, or smelt you, and has run off quietly. They will 
never rise, even when pursued by a dog, if they cam possibly 
avoid it, but run very swiftly away, always choosing the densest 
and most impenetrable part of the forest ta recreat through. 
When once the cleared space is discovered it is merely the 
work of a little patience to secure the bird by trapping it. The 
easiest way is to run a low fence of cut scrub round the spot, 
leaving four openings just sufficiently wide to enable the bird to 
pass through, and in these openings to place nooses fastened 
to the end of a pliant sapling, which is bent and kept down by 
a catch. This is the usual way, and the one I adopted to 
secure most of my specimens, as I found it as difficult to shoot, 
as it was easy totrap, thera. ‘The natives, however, have other 
ways of securing them, all dependent on taking advantage of 
the bird’s idiosyncrasy about keeping its home clean. . . . 
“ The males are not at all quarrelsome, and apparently never 
interfere with each other, though they will answer each other’s 
calls. The call of the male sounds like ‘ Zow-how, repeated 
ten or a dozen times, and is uttered at short intervals when 
the bird is in its clearing, one commencing, and others in the 
neigabourhood answering. The report of a gun will set every 
