118 THE BIRDS OF CALCUTTA. 



certainly does at first sight recall the two birds whose 

 name it bears rather than the ordinary members of 

 its real family. The Crow-pheasant is presaribed 

 in some places as an enemy to game, which, as his 

 general habits resemble those of a magpie, he probably 

 is ; but as he also destroys snakes, it would be better 

 to protect him stringently, since whatever harm he 

 may do to young pheasants or partridges would be 

 in most people's opinion amply offset by warfare on 

 creatures which are their enemies and ours alike. 



