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flapping of wings, and will often bring a pugna- 

 cious and inquisitive cock up to the spot to see 

 what rival has dared to invade the sanctity of his 

 domain. This plan, however, no real sportsman 

 would employ except he was anxious to obtain 

 the game for some particular purpose, arid could 

 not afford the leisure to pursue it in the more 

 orthodox manner. The most satisfactory way, to 

 my mind, is to beat for them much as a covert is 

 beaten at home for pheasants. They then rise 

 well, and an old jungle-cock, as he comes rocket- 

 ting over the trees, his long tail streaming behind 

 him, affords as pretty and sportsmanlike a shot as 

 any man need wish for. 



I have never heard of any large bags of jungle- 

 fowl being made, and the best that I ever made, 

 individually, was three in one morning, but this 

 was in the sneaking, crawling manner above 

 referred to. 



On one occasion, when out with a friend in the 

 jungles in the Chan da district in Berar, at a place 

 called Kussaboree, we got five grey jungle-fowl 

 (three of them cocks) and a spur-fowl. 



We had been disappointed in finding any large 

 game, by which I mean tigers, bears, &c., at this 

 place, and, hearing a good many jungle-cocks 

 crowing in the morning, we organised a beat for 

 them in the afternoon. The ground we beat con- 



