- CHINESE SILVER KALEEGE 
Gennaeus nycthemerus (Linnaeus) 
the beautiful bird of “day and night,” ranges across the whole of south 
or er almost to the sea-coast of Fokien. It is found in open forest, on clear, 
‘rivers. While the Silver Kaleege is common in captivity, yet no white na has ever seen 
chinese have developed a taste for their flesh and trap and shoot the bird extensi 
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