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to eighteen eggs of a grayish colour, speckled 

 with red and brown, and she hatches them in 

 twenty days, the chicks getting strong within a 

 week from breaking the shell. Their ordinary cry 

 resembles the syllables " Pu-tee-la ! pu-tee-la ! " re- 

 peated quickly. They are very pugnacious, and 

 are often kept for fighting purposes, those being 

 preferred that have double spurs, the second rising 

 from the roots of the first. The black partridge is 

 a most game-looking bird, the plumage being of a 

 bright glossy black, speckled with white round 

 spots. The cock is about fourteen inches in length, 

 and often weighs fifteen ounces. They pair in May, 

 the hen laying from ten to fifteen eggs of a light- 

 blue colour. The chickore very much resembles the 

 ordinary French partridge, the colours being rather 

 brighter and the beak red. They are very hard 

 to put up without dogs, being always on the run. 



After a tramp of about four hours, during which 

 time our people were laden with small game, we 

 arrived at the Ghuriali Hills, and, skirting their 

 base, made our way for a couple of miles up a 

 densely wooded ravine, at the bottom of which 



