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only fit to be made into soups, such as cock-a- 

 leekie or mulligatawny. 



Now a few words about jungle-fowl and spur- 

 fowl. 



As far as I am aware there are only two species 

 of jungle-fowl found in India. The small, red 

 jungle-fowl (Gallus Ferrugineus) and the grey 

 jungle-fowl (Gallus Sonneratii). The former is 

 pretty commonly distributed all over the conti- 

 nent of India, though it, as well as the other 

 species, adheres to the jungles, and seldom, if ever, 

 ventures far away from their outskirts. 



The red jungle-fowl much resembles a game 

 bantam, though slightly bigger. I have always 

 found this species much easier to put up than its 

 congeners, and it will rise freely before beaters. 

 They are, too, much easier to approach than the 

 grey kind. This latter species is very different, is 

 far handsomer, and a more game-looking bird. He 

 is much larger, and his peculiar hackles, the end 

 of each feather tipped with a metallic-like, shiny 

 yellow spot, are much prized by the fair sex as 

 ornaments for hats, and also by fishermen for 

 fly-dressing. This bird, I believe, is not found 

 south of the Nerbudda, and in the Pachmari Hills, 

 the Neilgherries, the Satpura Range, and all along 

 the Western Ghauts it is fairly abundant. 



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