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CHAPTER VIII. 



SMALL GAME SHOOTING. 



Small Game Shooting Pea-fowl A Creep through the Jungle 

 Probable Disappointment Pea-fowl Sacred to Hindoos A Shot 

 at Night Spearing a Peacock Ability of Concealment An 

 Upset Best Shot to Use Jungle-fowl Different Species 

 Their Pursuit Large Bags never Made A Beat The Result 

 Amateur Doctoring Spur-fowl Their Habitat A Clever 

 Greyhound Spur-fowl Shooting amongst the Coffee in Ceylon. 



I AM not writing for naturalists, for I have no 

 pretensions of belonging to that scientific order. 

 I merely offer these few notes from one sportsman 

 to others of the same genus who may honour me 

 by glancing over these pages. 



To those mighty hunters who have bagged 

 hecatombs of small game in the sunny clime of 

 the East, they will prove but of little interest ; 

 but to those for whom happy shikar days are 

 yet in store, a few hints as to the habitats, and 

 the best mode of making a bag, may not be un- 



