TKE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 403. 



two birds always seemed so keen on the figlit that it was easy to throw 

 ■a cloth over them and secure the wild with the tame. 



That the boom is a call to the male as well as a challenge to the 

 female was shown by the fact that cock birds as well as hens were 

 ■sometimes caught. I once saw a male snared, and his attitudes and 

 modest demeanour as he approached his lady love were most amusing. 

 There was no cooing or purring on his part, but he slunk up close 

 to where she was and then squatted in the grass, back to her, and 

 some six feet away. Here he lay quite still while she boomed away, 

 bowed, danced, and scraped to him in a perfect ecstacy, yet prevented 

 from approaching any nearer to him by her tether. At last, seeing 

 that she would not go to him, the male commenced sidling up to 

 Jber, only a few inches at a time, until he stepped into a noose, and 

 was trapped. 



So pugnacious are these birds that they will often continue to 

 fight in their small cages almost immediately after they are trapped, 

 -and it would be impossible to keep breeding hens together with any 

 safety. 



TuRNix PUGrNAX TAijooR (Sykes). 



The Common Bustard Quail. 



Hemipodius taijoor. — Sykes, P. Z. S., 1832, p. 155 (Deccan) 

 Eengal Sporting Mag,, 1836, p, 171. 



Turnix taijoor. — Jerdon, B. of I,, iii, p. 595 (part) ; Ball, Str. 

 Feath,, ii, p. 428 ; Stoliczka, J. A, S, B., xlii,, pt. ii., p. 250 ; Butler, 

 Str, Feath,, iv., p, 7 (N, Guzerat) ; David, and Wen., ihid, vii, p. 87 

 r(Deccan) ; Ball, ibid, vii, p. 226 (Ganges to Godaveri) ; Hume and 

 Marsh., Game B. ii, p. 169 (part); Vidal, Str. Feath,, ix,, p, 77 

 (S, Konkan) ; Butler, Oat. B. of S., Bombay, p, 70 ; Hume, Cat, 

 No. 832; Ball, Str. Feath,, ix,, p. 424; David., ibid, x., p, 317 

 (Khandesh) ; Davison, ibid, p. 412 (Mysore); Macgregor, ibid, 

 ,p. 441 (Deccan) ; Taylor, ibid, p, 465 (Mysore) ; Macphersow, Str. 

 Feath., ihid, p. 119 ; Barnes, B. of Bombay, p. 317; Butler, B. of 

 Sind, p. 55 ; Gates, Hume's Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., iii,, p, 367 

 '(part) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat, B. M,, xxii,, p, 530 (part) ; id., Game 

 B., i., p. 265 (part) ; Barnes, J. B, N. H. S,, vi,. p, 9. 



Turnix pugnax. — Butler, Str. Feath,, v,, p. 222 (Deesa) ; Fairbank, 

 ibid, p. 409 (Palni Hills); Sharpe, Hand-List, i,, p, 48 (part); 

 Gates, Cat. Eggs, B. M., i., p, 69 (part) ; Blanford, Avifauna B, I., 

 iv., p. 150 (part) ; Moss King, J. B. N. H. S., xxi., p. 101 ; White- 

 head, ibid, p. 168, 



Vernacular names. — Gulu, Gundlu, Gtindra, Salui-gandra (^Hind), 

 Pured, female, Kalada, male, (Telegu), Kurung-kadik, female, An- 

 kadik, male, (Tamil) ; Durwa, (Ratnagiri), Karechaki, (Canarese). 



BescriiMon, adult female. — Differs from imgnax in being much 

 •paler and much more rufous, many birds appearing, as a whole, to 



