322 On the Manner of Hunting and Sporting 



brown colour, clumfier ftape, and not fo pointed about the 

 noie. In nature, thev partake more of the wolf than of the 

 dog or fox. Their real Afiatic name is fliiigaul, perverted 

 by Englifh feamen trading to the Levant (where they are in 

 plenty cju the coafts of Svna and Afia Minor) into jackalls. 



Of the partridge there are feveral kinds, one with a white 

 belly, and another Ibniething like groufe, only more motley 

 feathered. 



Plover too are various ; and, when the weather becomes 

 warm, ortolans traverfc the heaths and commons in immenfe 

 flocks. 



There are no pheafants in the woods of Bengal or Bahar 

 nearer than the confines of Afi'am, Chitlagong, and the range 

 of mountains feparating Fiinduftan from Tibet and Napaul. 

 But there, particularly about the Morung and in Betiah, 

 they are large and beautiful, more efpecially the golden, the 

 burniflicd, the fpotted, and the azure, as well as the brown 

 Argus pheafant. 



As for peacocks, they are every where in multitudes, and 

 of two or three fpecies. One trail in Orifla is denominated 

 More-bunje, or the Peacock DlftricSl. 



Cranes are of three forts, and all of a caerulean gray: the 

 very lofty one, with a crimfon head, cdWcdt far us ; the fmall- 

 eft, called curcurrah^ (the dcmmfelle of Linnceus and Buffon,) 

 uncommonly beautiful and elegant, whofe fnow-white tuft, 

 behind its fcarlet-glowing eye?, is the appropriate ornament 

 for the turban of the empei or alone ; and the middle-fized 

 one with a black head, llie common grus. They return to 

 the norliiern mountains about the autumnal equinox, after 

 ceffation of ihe periodical rains, with their young, in myriads 

 of flights, frequent as the wood pigeon in North America; 

 and fometimes, vihen theVind is very violent, flocks of them 

 mount to a vafi height in the air, and there WFnd about in 

 recular circles, feeniinoly with much delight, and venting 

 all the lime a harfh di'lorJant fuream, heard at a confiderable 

 diftance. 



In the wilds of Hinduflnn certainlv originated the common 

 domeftic fowl, for there thev are dilcovered in almoli: every 

 forelt. They are all banlams, but without feathers on their 

 legs; the cocks are in cojour all alike, v.diat fporthuen call 

 ginger red; they have a fhie tufted cinder of white downy 

 leathers upon their rumps, are wonderfully ftalely in their 

 gait, and fight like furies. The hens are invariably brown. 

 It is extremely plcafant, in travelling tlirougli the woods early 

 in a morning, tolitar t^hem crowing, anu to pertelvc the 

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