NUISANCES IN INDIAN SHOOTING 



called from its startling strident note when disturbed. 

 This troublesome bird is very partial (for nesting 

 purposes) to little open spaces in the jungle, and 

 the sportsman who may, while moving stealthily, 

 with rifle on full cock, through a likely part of the 

 forest in search of deer, have had the misfortune 

 to start one or a pair of these birds, knows well 

 that every animal within hearing of that eerie cry 

 has as surely taken the alarm as if it had itself seen 

 the human intruder. Another unmitigated nuisance 

 to the sportsman in Thibet is the kyang or wild 

 ass, whose irritating curiosity leads it to gallop 

 round a stalker as soon as it has perceived his 

 presence, and by its absurd antics to communicate 

 the alarm to the game which he is endeavouring 

 to approach. 



Monkeys, too, are often to blame by chattering 

 when they see a sportsman, and thus drawing the 

 attention of all other animals within hearing to the 

 fact that an enemy is on foot ; but as they often 

 do the sportsman a service by indicating in the 

 same manner the whereabouts of a tiger or a 

 panther, it is comparatively easy to forgive them 

 for an occasional indiscretion. 



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