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pair of iron bars supporting the weather-boards near the door leading out of 
the bar lounge. It was within reach of every passer-by and not concealed by 
any bush or creeper, The writer has a nest now near his front door and the 
birds are even more confiding. It is built in a small croton within a couple of 
feet of the door frame. Care was taken not to disturb the hen-bird while she 
was sitting on her eggs, and the first advances were made when she had hatched 
them out. A hand was brought close to her when she wag sitting in her nest 
and bits of soaked gram offered. She did not seem to care for this food and 
pecked viciously, but she would not leave her post, and there can be little 
doubt she was bravely defending her chicks, Worms were offered to her and 
she took them greedily, but still she seemed, by her pecking, to resent the intru- 
sion into her home. Bread crumbs were then tried, and she took them without 
hesitation. After she had been repeatedly fed in this way, she ceased all hos- 
tile demontrations while she was on her nest, but if she happened to return 
from an outing and found any one too near the nest, handling the protecting 
croton leaves, she would charge boldly home. Once she even struck the 
offending hand, and then made a rapid retreat and dodged into her nest from 
the opposite side. She has hopped along the rim of the pot in which the 
croton stands and taken food held out to her in the hand, She has so far only 
shown such confidence in the immediate neighbourhood of her nest, but she 
may be open to more general friendship. Some wretched vermin carried off 
two of her chicks at night, but up to this evening there was still one gaping 
mouth in the nest. The coch-bird has still his natural amount of shyness, 
It was curious to watch the process of feeding the newly-hatched birds, The 
hen rarely left the nest. The cock would come with a morsel in his bill and 
she would clear out to let him administer it, but go no further away than a 
rosebush which stands in a pot within 10 feet. The cock never stayed after 
he had done this pretty domestic office, and directly he left, the hen would 
return and take her family under her wings for another spell. 
The exhibition is still on view, and a gentleman from Bombay went this 
morning away hugely surprised and pleased with it. 
H. T. OMMANNEY, I.C8. 
PancH Manats, 10th July, 1893 
No, VIII.—NOTES ON THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A DOG. 
There are many still in Bombay who will remember “ Bodger,” for he had 
a good many friends as well as enemies, the former chiefly bipeds, the latter 
mostly quadrupeds, Bodger started in life, as many other dogs have done, born 
of poor but honest parents (this is but Supposition, for I was never able +o 
find out who or what his father or mother were and very little clue could be 
gained by looking at Bodger),. I called him a bull-terrier, as that was the 
nearest breed that he had any resemblance to, He was, however, a strong, 
active, and fairly well-shaped dog, rather long in the legs and a tail go long 
