LOPHOPHORUS L' HOYS 1 1 203- 



by no means common or easy to find, but when once seen 

 do not appear to be at all timid and may be approached 

 to within a few feet. Two were brought me, having 

 been snared by the leg near Wan-Tung, in the 

 mountains ; one, unfortunately, died, but the other 

 travelled home safely, and is now in the Zoological 

 Society's gardens. I tried to procure their eggs but 

 failed, natives bringing me eggs of Ithaginis^ which they 

 assured me were those of the Lophophorus ; but, luckily, 

 I had found the nest of the Ithaginis myself, and could 

 easily recognise their cream-coloured eggs thickly 

 sprinkled with small spots of brown, and I was not^ 

 therefore, to be taken in. 



These birds are very fond of the small peymou bulb^ 

 and, in places where it is plentiful, scratch it out of the 

 soil. The natives, if they find a place much used, and 

 where a fair quantity of the bulbs still remain, set a 

 number of nooses pegged down and frequently capture 

 the birds by the leg. 



Some adult Crossoptilun that had been snared were- 

 brought to me ahve, but these all died. They roost in 

 large companies in the forest, and if a native finds a 

 roosting-place and has a gun, he lights a fire under- 

 neath, and can then shoot every bird singly, they 

 appearing to be dazed by the light of the fire, and 

 taking no notice of the report of the gun. 



