ILLUSTRATIONS OF FOREIGN OOLOGY. 
further particulars, vide Jerdon, in “‘ Madras Journal of Literature 
and Science,” xii. 8. This naturalist states:—‘ The Bustard 
breeds most generally about the end of the monsoon, and subse- 
quent cold weather, the female laying one or two eggs; it how- 
ever varies much in the time of breeding. The egg is of a dark 
olive colour, with obscure darker blotches. When feeding, it is 
generally wary and difficult to approach; but during the heat of 
the day, it lies down either in the long grass or in the shade of 
some bush, and is then often approached quite close. It usually 
takes a long flight when once raised, often several miles, and flies 
with a continual flapping of its wings, never sailing.” 
Of the Bengal Floriken (Sypheotides bengalensis.), Mr. Hodg- 
son has given so full and excellent an account in the “ Journal 
of the Asiatic Society of Bengal” (i.e. “The Asiatic Society,” 
by precedence of all others of that name), vol. xvi. pp. 884, ¢ 
seq., that it is hardly necessary to cite what our sporting autho- 
rity has penned concerning it. He remarks, however, that “ these 
birds are generally met with in patches of long grass cover, and 
jhoowad jungle in the Gorruckpore Terai, and along the banks 
of the Gunduck and other rivers in that direction. I have also,” 
he adds, “ seen an oceasional bird in the Meywar district, about 
Neemuch, in the direction of Burrasadree. They are very difli- 
cult of approach; and when wounded, will run a considerable 
distance. The surest method of getting within shot of them, is 
to accompany a native driving a bullock towards the spot, or 
the syce” (groom) “leading your horse. The former plan, hovw- 
ever, is the surest.”* It is remarkable, that the males of this 
-pecies, in their full breeding livery, so adpress the long feathers 
of the neck constituting the ruff, in their ordinary movements, 
that its presence would never be suspected, and the neck looks 
thin and slender like that of an Ostrich. This we have often 
observed with Some surprise, in those which our friend kept in his 
garden, and which lost much of their timidity, but never became 
tame or familiar. They were remarkably fond of the large crimson 
double flowers of a species of Hibiscus commonly grown in Indian 
gardens, and would strip all the bushes off them as high as they 
og reach. When gallanting before the females, however, the 
g neck feathers are displayed, and also in their contests ; for 
“ * “ Bengal Sporting Magazine,” June, 1837. 
