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THE HORNED PHEASANT. 



Their usual haunts, pays " Mountaineer," are high up, not far from 

 the snows, in dense, and gloomy forests, where they live either alone, or 

 in small scattered parties, In winter they descend the hills, and then 

 their favorite haunts are in the thickest parts of the forests of oak, 

 chestnut and morenda pine, where the box tree is abundant, and where 

 under the forest trees a luxuriant growth of " ringalt" or the hill bamboo 

 forms an underwood in some places almost impenetrable. They keep 







in companies of from two or three to ten or a dozen or more, not in 

 compact flocks, but scattered widely over a considerable space of forest, 

 so that many at times get quite separated and are found alone. Jerdon 

 tells us that if undisturbed, they generally remain pretty close together, 

 and appear to return year after year to the same spot, even though the 

 ground be covered with snow, for they find their living then upon 

 the trees. 



