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partridge is a beautiful bird of a jet black co- 

 lour with white spots on the breast. The 

 long tailed partridge is of a dark brown colour 

 and has two long spurs on each leg: and the 

 speckled partridge is also a beautiful bird but 

 rare, I have only seen a few of them. They 

 have the appearance of a mixture between the 

 rock pigeon and black partridge. 1 believe 

 there are seven, if not eight different kinds of 

 quail in the hills ofRamghur I have killed six 

 distinct species in one day. 



To catch peacocks and jungle fowl [a spe- 

 cies of wild fowl that are to be met with 

 throughout the country of Ramghur in great 

 abundance,, and are very like our domestic 

 ones, but rather of a smaller size and always of 

 the same colour, the cocks are of a black red 

 with large combs and joles, and the hens of a> 

 dark brown, somewhat speckled.] Two or 

 three Shecarries go together and proceed in 

 the following manner. A line of thirty or for- 

 ty yards long, is fastened to the ground with 

 wooden pegs at each extremity, which is then 



