JUNGLE FOWL 



are on a forest path, and hear a cock, go into the 

 forest a little way noiselessly, give your flaps, and wait, 

 crouched down or otherwise, gun at full cock, watching the 

 direction from which you expect the cock to come, and 

 don't make a sound or movement. If he is coming he 

 will crow no more, but make his way towards you, some- 

 times running, sometimes with great caution, and the 

 moment you get a good sight of him fire, or he will be off 

 if you as much as wink an eye. If a cock continues to crow 

 after you have ch&Menged once, and perhaps again, tenta- 

 tively, you may move on, for he won't come he has his 

 harem with him and you must come to him, not he to 

 you. If a cock is a long way off when you challenge, 

 give him plenty of time if he stops crowing to your first 

 attempt; don't flap again if you have to wait long, for 

 he will do that if he can't find you and is really "on the 

 job." You may then, if he is fairly near you, give two or 

 three quiet gentle flaps, as much as to say, " Here I am ! " 

 Ready with your gun, and you have him ! I have intro- 

 duced many friends to this style of shooting, and it has 

 greatly delighted them. It is an old trick, but curiously 

 enough few men know of it ; and, in the north at any 

 rate, it is almost unknown to the natives. The cock 

 is rather tough eating, but distinctly good, and the hens 

 are excellent. I never lose an opportunity of bagging 

 one or the other for the table. 



I have killed as many as 10 or 12 in a fortnight's 

 trip, only trying for them when on the travel from camp 

 to camp ; and on one trip Wright and I accounted for 

 no less than 21 between us, I getting n, he 10. As 

 I said before, it is great fun for an off-day, or when 

 travelling, and I can recommend it to the attention of 

 sportsmen in the low country. Up in the mountain 



