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pursuit of a tiger in this way. Tliey surround a large tract 

 of cotintrj'j and draw gradually together till the animal is 

 enclosed in a compact ring of armed men. When he see-s 

 there is no escape ho generally makes a spring, and is 

 leceived on a dozen spears, and almost instantly stabhed 



10 deatk The skin of an animal thus killed is, of course, 

 worthless, and in this case the skull, wliich I had begged 

 Mr. Ball to secure for me, was hacked to pieces to divide 

 the teeth, which are worn as cliarms. 



After a week at Wonosalem, I returned to the foot of 

 the mountain, to a \'illage named Djapanmui. which was 

 surrounded by several patches of forest, and seemed alto- 

 gether lu'etty well suited to my pnrsuits. The chief of 

 the village !iad prepared two small bambiTO rooms on 

 I me side of his own courtyard to accommodate me, and 

 seemed inclined to assist me as much as he could. The 

 weather was exceedingly hot and dry, no min having 

 fallen for several months, and there w;us, in consequence, 



11 great scarcity of insects, ami especially of beetles, I 

 therefore devoted myself ehietly to obtaining a good set of 

 the biitls, and succeeded in making a tolerable collection. 

 All the peacocks we had Idtheito shot had had short or 

 imperfect tiiils, but I now obtained two magnificent speci- 

 mens more than seven feet long, one of whicli I preserved 

 entire, while I kept the ti-ain only attached to the tail of 

 two or three others, Wlien this bird is seen feeding on 

 the ground, it appears wonderful how it can rise into the 

 air with sncli u long and cumbersome train of feathers. 

 It does so however with great ease, by running (juickly for 

 a short distance, and then rising obliquely ; and will fly 

 over trees of a consideraljle height. 1 also obtained here 

 a specimen of the rare green jiingle-lbwl (Gallus furcatus), 

 whose baek and neck ai-e beantifiiUy scaled w^th bronzj^ 

 feathers, and whose smooth-edged oval comb is of a violet 

 purple colour, changing to green at the base. It is also 

 remarkable in possessing a single large wattle b^jneath iti> 

 throatj brightly coloured in three patclies of red, ycUow, and 

 blue. The common jnngle-cock (GaUns bankiva) was also 

 Dbtained here. It is almost exactly like a common game- 

 cock, but the voice is different, being much shorter and 

 more abrupt; whence its native name h Beki^ko. SLs 



