SPOTTED DOVE 209 



water, and on rice, both husked and unhusked ; but they will eat any 

 grain freely, and should also be given any fruit which may be obtainable. 

 Above all, however, they should be supphed with an ample bath daily, 

 for they love splashing and washing in a shallow pan with about an inch 

 of water in it. When wild they seem to relish alike a dust-bath or a 

 swill in some shallow streiamlet. 



They are extremely good to eat, and, in India, where it is so often 

 hard to get a change from the ubiquitous fowl, many a Spotted Dove 

 goes into the pot, and having regaled the eye and the ear of the camper- 

 out in the morning, ministers to his wants in yet another way in the 

 evening. 



