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next quarter of an hour, with no little surprise and pleasure, that the 
force of the venom was evidently subdued ; that the blood began to 
circulate more freely, and that there was a fair prospect of saving the 
child's life. The cure was actually completed before the following 
morning ; at which time I found him playing as well as usual ; nor 
did I afterwards hear that this bite left, ultimately, any unpleasant 
result behind. 
We shot a large bird of the bustard kind, which was called 
Wilde Paauw (Wild Peacock). This name is here very wrongly 
applied, as the bird to which it properly belongs, differs from this in 
every respect. There are indeed three, or perhaps four, birds to 
which in different districts, this appellation is given. The present 
species, which is called Kori * in the Sichuana language, measured, 
in extent of wing, not less than seven feet; and in bulk and weight, 
was almost greater than some of the people could manage. The 
under part of the body was white, but the upper part was covered 
with fine lines of black on a light chesnut-coloured ground. The tail 
and quill-feathers partook of the general colouring of the back. The 
shoulders were marked with large blotches of black and white ; and 
the top of the head was black. The feathers of the occiput were elon- 
gated into a crest. Those of the neck were also elongated, loose, narrow 
and pointed, and were of a whitish color marked with numerous 
transverse lines of black. The irides were of a beautiful, pellucid, 
changeable, silvery, ferrugineous color. A representation of the head 
of the Ko7i Bustard in the proportion of one-fifth of the natural size, 
is given at the end of this chapter. Its body was so thickly protected 
by feathers, that our largest-sized shot made no impression ; and, 
taught by experience, the hunters never fire at it, but with a bullet. 
* 0/25 Kori, B. Supra dilute castanea, plumis nigro lineatis. Abdomen et pectus 
alba. Cauda et alse corpori coiicolores. Tectrices superiores alarum maculis albis et 
nigris magnis notatae. Pileus niger. Cristata ex plumis occipitalibus elongatis. 
Plumae colli elongatae acutse augustae, laxae, albidas nigro fasciatae. Pedes et digit! 
albidi. Irides pellucidae argenteo-ferrugineae. — Vide iconem, ad quintam partem mag- 
nitudinis naturalis diminutam, capitulo xvi. subjunctam. 
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