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driven in at intervals. From this cord are hung 

 a number of nooses of monkey gut, so as to enclose 

 the decoy cock in the centre with a circle of snares. 

 The Behur now conceals himself in some brush- 

 wood near at hand. The tame cock begins to crow, 

 and very soon an answering challenge is heard 

 from some of the jungle cocks. The decoy continues 

 his note of defiance, and presently a jungle-cock is 

 seen in the branches overhead ready to do battle 

 with this intruder on his own peculiar domains. 

 Down he flies towards his opponent, who with 

 ruffled feathers is ready to meet him, and just 

 as they are about to begin battle, the man appears 

 on the scene. This at once frightens off the jungle- 

 cock, which, instead of taking to flight, bends its 

 head low and runs off, and, meeting with the 

 nooses, is almost certain to be caught by the 

 neck or legs. The man quickly bags it, re- 

 adjusts his snares, and goes back to his place of 

 concealment, and the challenge and crowing go on 

 again till all the cocks in the neighbourhood are 

 secured. Four or five birds, sometimes, are 

 secured in this way in the course of a morning. 



