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appear to remain with the parents throughout the autumn and winter, wandering 
off by themselves only at the approach of the next breeding season. The annual 
moult occurs about October or November, and while the young birds may breed in 
the second year, it is sometimes the fourth annual moult before all signs of 
juvenility are eliminated from the plumage. 
RELATION TO MAN 
Although partial to lonely trails which pass through the jungle, and occasionally 
feeding along the borders of cleared fields, yet Lineated Pheasants do not like the 
haunts of mankind, and prefer the undisturbed quiet of isolated regions. They will 
not, however, desert a place at the first appearance of civilization, and may be shot 
for a year or two at comparatively short distances from recently-built rest-houses. 
They remain even longer in the vicinity of a new native hamlet, where, in the end, 
the trapping of the birds results in an even more thorough elimination. 
Kaleege are taken both in spring-traps and by means of decoy birds.. These 
are surrounded by scores of nooses, and the approaching cocks seldom avoid 
entangling themselves before they reach their supposed rival. I have already spoken 
of the decoying of wild birds by means of artificially imitating the wing-whirr. 
Besides the bamboo-stick-and-leaf method, this is achieved by means of a bit of 
cloth held in the two hands and repeatedly snapped taut. Sometimes two methods 
are combined, as when the hidden native whirls his stick and thus stimulates 
the tethered tame bird to wing-whirring, which sound, in turn, attracts the wild 
cocks. 
English sportsmen consider the kaleege as legitimate game, and many are shot 
both in season and out. The latter reprehensible deed carries its own punishment, 
for very often the birds are exceedingly lean and tough. In the autumn and winter, 
after a diet of acorns, they leave little to be desired as an addition to the camp 
mess, 
Accounts differ widely as to the behaviour of the kaleege when hunted, some 
sportsmen saying it always escapes by running, others that it flies at once. In 
underbrush, when approached by a man, it certainly always escapes on foot, but the 
approach of a dog in almost any kind of cover is sufficient to send it up at once 
into a tree. 
While the general range of the Lineated Kaleege is being continually restricted 
by wholesale shooting and trapping, yet it is protected in all Government reserved 
forests between March 1 and October 1, and even outside there are many officers and 
other sportsmen who are as conscientious as if they were on preserves at home. 
Full-blooded Lineated Kaleege are rarely to be procured alive outside of Burma, 
the birds generally showing atypical characters, being captured probably on the 
boundary of the range of the species, where hybridism has taken place. The first 
were exhibited in London in 1864. Of nineteen individuals of which records were 
kept, the average duration of life was a year and ten months, while the extreme 
was six years and four months. Lineated Kaleege breed readily, and, of course, 
cross with any species of the genus. 
