Ml 



tpat i> worth] rd i Eliding slowli 



• tin countn one fine morning in pursuit "i - , I | 



wtpal on » proj branch of a Uu -hurt 



i number of different kinds of birdi in a field in search 



1 1 1 ilia " spring up and 



catch ii locust in to loo large to 



-il\ subdued by the biro, ami awaj . il 



i umc or twice from the bird, bnl «n* ns aken. 



The Tkampal had evidently observed tin- locust'* . mid had 



:u tli>- bird, l>ut in vain. 



of these atteanpti he returned quietly t<» Ins perch, I 

 ing up thi mother similar trial. He had not, 



: « -i tmii<U, when — p rhaps having ret 

 in his miii'/ thai the morsel «n«. too Dice ■ one to I"- relinquished 



he suddenl) uttered tome of those -hrill 

 which indicate the approach of n hawk. Sn sodden was 

 alarm, nml given with an intensity denoting' imminent danger, thai 



••it hard hi ; 

 the locust, being abandoned in the panic, was taken off as ton 



i- Tkampal. 1 satu it that no hawk bad been oi 



in the vicinity, before I left the spot , and am confident the alarm 

 was a rune on the part <>t the Tkampal to get at the locnat, 



Lanius Lahtora, 8yk< I tor a. 



Thia Shrike i» common enough throughout the N.W. Proviu 

 ami - tch and zw notice of the as* 



•urial birds, hawks in particular. I have never teen 

 •k any large bird, bat I bare on "in nr r.\ 

 i it pur- pture small birds in the fields. It flew 



them round nml into theboshes before it could eflfeel tare. 



A friend of mine ( Mr I 11> me l><- Im* alao seen th< 



thing done bj n Lat . nml I mention this ben 



I believe it h this bird preys thus on tin- 



r birds. This, bowt , 1 am inclined to believe it il<" i but 



m, nml only from r\tninit\ i I hoi gl r 



lizards, Sec, when th y abound. I have heard thnt 

 thisShrik < trained, but eoold Bever be n.n.li u 



bird larger than n sparrow. It i«. however, used in another curious 



for thr> purpot other l>ir<N. The bird-cal 



tnkis a Latora, and running through its nostrils, rni 



■ 

 struiL' so as to bri t tin two birds ncarli together, 



joins it in n k 



round in a field, round which spot a circle of linn- 

 is set up. \ the man withdraws bin - two 

 bird- tr\ to eittrit It "liiis mnk which 



attra and which t r \ '■• ssporate the ^ipponcd 



• \% ho iu 



I ! 'ii^ the l>ird> 



I I ; 'Of. 



