PHOTOGRAVURE 31 



ROOSTING- AND FEEDING-PLACES OF THE RED JUNGLEFOWL 



These birds roost high up, often on the half-bent curve of a tall bamboo, whose smooth stem ensures 

 safety from arboreal carnivores. As many as thirty birds have been seen roosting close together. 



Just as tame fowl are fond of the company of barn-yard cows, so the wild Red Junglefowl are often 

 seen in the vicinity of wild catde, and I have seen them again and again feeding about buffalo wallows. 

 It is almost impossible to flush these birds. They invariably choose to escape by running swiftly away, 

 yet, when surprised by a dog, they have the ability of rising as quickly and strongly as partridges. 



