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children, a fon, his mother or fifters, on the iffae of a hattle. 

 In difpiited pomts four umphes are appointed, if they cannot 

 agree there is no appeal but to the fword. Some of them have 

 a notion that their cocks are betooah^ or invulnerable ; a father 

 on his very death-bed has, imder that opinion, direded his fon 

 to lay his whole property on a certain bird, under the full con- 

 vi6lion of confequential fuccefs. 



The Europeans in Hindoojian trim the cocks, and fight them 

 with common gaffs. The cocks are of a great fize, and often 

 weigh ten pounds, but fight with the fame fpirit as the belt 

 Briti/h. The Nabobs themfelves often enter in the conteft with 

 our EngliJJj gentry. The ftake worthy of this Pa^oHan country, 

 a lack of rupees. Mr. Zaff'any fent over a pi6ture into Engla?id, 

 in which the Nabob of Otide is reprefented engaged with an 

 Engli/h officer. In the back ground appear the dancing girls, 

 and all the wild magnificence of an Indian court. 



India gives us two fpecies of Buftards, one called Churge^ Bustards. 

 Latham, vii. 228. Edw. 250, a large fpecies, weighing twelve or 

 fourteen pounds ; the fize alone forbids one to join it with the 

 white ear'd, Latham, iv. 802. This is very common in India, 

 and efteemed delicious eating. 



The PaJ/arage,vu.. 22S, or Pajarage P/over of Bemga/, does Passakage 

 not exceed eighteen inches in length ; the plumage is mod de- 

 licately mottled, or rather reticulated w'ith network of the fineft 

 lines of black and brown, inclofing meflies of a full black ; on 

 the head is a moft elegant creft, confifting of four pairs of capil- 

 lary feathers, each of different lengths, terminating in fj^ear- 

 Ihaped tufts. It is not an uncommon bird, but is feldoni 



taken, 



