LOPHOPHORUS L’HUYSIL 203° 
by no means common or easy to find, but when once seen 
do not appear to be at all timid and may be approached 
to within a few feet. Two were brought me, having 
been snared by the leg near Wan-Tung, in the 
mountains; one, unfortunately, died, but the other 
travelled home safely, and is now in the Zoological 
Society's gardens. I tried to procure their eggs but 
failed, natives bringing me eggs of [thaginis, which they 
assured me were those of the Lophophorus ; but, luckily, 
I had found the nest of the lthaginis myself, and could 
easily recognise their cream-coloured eggs thickly 
sprinkled with small spots of brown, and I was not, 
therefore, to be taken in. 
These birds are very fond of the small peymou bulb, 
and, in places where it is plentiful, scratch it out of the 
soil. The natives, if they find a place much used, and 
where a fair quantity of the bulbs still remain, set a 
number of nooses pegged down and frequently capture 
the birds by the leg. 
Some adult Crossoptilon that had been snared were 
brought to me alive, but these all died. They roost in 
large companies in the forest, and if a native finds a 
roosting-place and has a gun, he lights a fire under- 
neath, and can then shoot every bird singly, they 
appearing to be dazed by the light of the fire, and 
taking no notice of the report of the gun. 
