chap, xi.] TAME FISHES. 269 



We entered through a rather handsome brick gateway 

 supported by hideous Hindoo deities in stone. Within was 

 an enclosure with two square fish-ponds and some fine trees ; 

 then another gateway through which we entered into a 

 park. On the right was a brick house, built somewhat in 

 the Hindoo style, and placed on a high terrace or platform ; 

 on the left a large fish-pond, supplied by a little rivulet 

 which entered it out of the mouth of a gigantic crocodile 

 well executed in brick and stone. The edges of the pond 

 were bricked, and in the centre rose a fantastic and pictu- 

 resque pavilion ornamented with grotesque statues. The 

 pond was well stocked with fine fish, which come every 

 morning to be fed at the sound of a wooden gong which 

 is hung near for the purpose. On striking it a number of 

 fish immediately came out of the masses of weed with 

 which the pond abounds, and followed us along the margin 

 expecting food. At the same time some deer carne out of 

 an adjacent wood, which, from being seldom shot at and 

 regularly fed, are almost tame. The jungle and woods 

 which surrounded the park appearing to abound in birds, 

 I went to shoot a few, and was rewarded by getting several 

 specimens of the fine new kingfisher, Halcyon fulgidus, 

 and the curious and handsome ground thrush, Zoothera 

 andromeda. The former belies its name by not frequenting 

 water or feeding on fish. It lives constantly in low damp 

 thickets picking up ground insects, centipedes, and small 



