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poaching. The Kurbars use dead-falls of sorts, and also drive stakes about fifteen 
inches high into the ground close together to form a circle about two feet in diameter, 
in which grain is placed, and the birds learn to feed through two openings which are 
left open for the purpose. After a while, a very ingenious arrangement made of bamboo, 
on the principle of a scissor trap, is placed at the opening, into which the bird gets its 
head and is killed. The Pardees approach the feeding birds under cover of a bull, and a 
line of nooses having been set, they mill around until the birds are close to the line. 
They then suddenly leap out and scare the birds, and in their rush to escape many are 
caught by the neck or leg. Any one who has tried to get even within gunshot of such 
birds will realize the skill which these natives must possess to successfully carry out this 
method of attack. 
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The Grey Junglefowl was first bred in Europe in 1862, when thirteen hybrids with 
the red species were reared in the London Zoo. Since then it has been bred many 
times in various public and private aviaries, both pure and as crosses. Of twelve birds 
of which records were kept in the London Zoo, one notable individual lived twelve years 
and four months, the average length of life of the others being two years and a half. 
The period of incubation lasts from eighteen to nineteen days. A pair of these birds 
bred successfully in the aviary of F. E. Blaauw in Holland. The hen laid three 
successive times, in clutches of four eggs each, and from these ten birds, five cocks and 
five hens, were reared. The first two layings were taken away and set under bantam 
hens, while the last lot of four was left to the mother, who sat faithfully and hatched 
them all. The richly-coloured chicks thrived on ants’ eggs, and assumed their adult 
plumage in the first autumn. 
When the eggs of wild Junglefowl are brought in and hatched under a domestic 
hen, the chicks remain contentedly with the mother until they are able to fly, when they 
roost at night by themselves on some bush or low tree. When a few months old they 
invariably retreat to the jungle, and do not return. Grey Junglefowl seldom become 
tame in captivity, certainly not more so than the average pheasant. While there is no 
doubt that the red species is the direct ancestor of all of our poultry, the rather close 
relation of the grey bird is shown in the facility with which it crosses with the 
descendants of its generic relative. In the native villages of Kanara and elsewhere, it is 
not a rare sight to see hybrids which possess more or less perfectly the bright sealing- 
wax hackles of one parent, while they have inherited sufficient domestic instincts to 
induce them to remain with the other inmates of the compound. 
DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
ApvuLtt Mare.—The feathering of the head is confined to a narrow line of reddish, 
rather recurved feathers between the comb and eye, and a small rounded tuft of silvery- 
white feathers covering the ear. The face, chin, and throat appear naked, but are evenly 
but thinly covered with a scanty growth of filo-plumes, each a simple hair-like shaft, or 
tipped with several rudimentary barbs. Immediately back of the comb the feathers take 
on the character of the hackles as a whole. ‘The smallest of these show a small spot, flat 
