WILD-FOWL, SNfPE, ETC. Ut 



a real goose, however, a little fellow the size of a 

 very small teal, and excellent eating. They do not 

 go in large flocks like their grey brethren. 



The Brahmini duck, a very handsome bird, has 

 also a place in Hindoo mythology, as they are 

 always seen in pairs during the day, but at night 

 occupy opposite banks of the river, giving forth 

 their melancholy wailing cry of c chukwah chuk- 

 wi !' the name by which they are known in the 

 vernacular. They are supposed to be the incar- 

 n'ation of the souls of lovers condemned by a cruel 

 fate to pass their nights apart. Though a bird of 

 rare and handsome plumage, they are worthless 

 for the table, and only the tyro in Eastern sport 

 wastes a charge of shot on them. 



The native method of getting wild-fowl is very 

 ingenious, but would not of course recommend 

 itself to any British sportsman. On a tank fre- 

 quented by wild-fowl a number of earthenware 

 ' chatties,' or pots, are put to float on the water 

 for a few days, till the fowl become accustomed to r 

 and take no notice of them. The wily native then 

 one day quietly enters the water with only a 

 leathern belt round his waist, and placing on his 

 head a ' chatty,' in which a couple of holes have 

 been bored for him to see out of, very quietly 

 paddles and floats towards the unsuspecting fowl. 

 He is soon amongst them, when with a sharp 



