Sept. 22, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
475 
Let us quit the wooded slopes of the Himal¬ 
ayas, and plunge into the vast forests covering 
the so-called plains of India, and see whether or 
no we can record further instances, in which a 
predaceous animal’s locality is often betrayed by 
dither members of feral life. The hunter is care¬ 
fully threading his way along a jungle path, 
keeping a watchful eye on his immediate sur¬ 
roundings. From a neighboring hill side comes 
wafted on the gentle breeze the sound of an un¬ 
usual commotion; the loud and noisy cackling 
of startled jungle-fowl, and the far-reaching 
bark of a four-horned antelope, and the peculiar 
note of an affrighted peafowl as it flashes over 
the tree-tops, clearly indicates that some car¬ 
nivorous beast is on the roam. A few paces 
further on a small patch of ground has been 
scratched bare of its leafy covering, and from 
the droppings it is easy to deduce that a panther 
has just been visiting the spot. The monkey 
tribe frequently plays a prominent part in the 
revelation of the vicinity of that king among 
beasts, the tiger. How often, bn a scorching 
day in April or May, has the sportsman en¬ 
sconced in a platform guarding the exit from 
some shady ravine surveyed with anxious gaze 
the capers of a troop of chattering, gibbering, 
swearing apes, as they leap and swing from the 
spreading branches of one foliage-stripped tree 
to another, peering the while at the yellow-glid¬ 
ing form of the striped enemy beneath them, 
as it is driven from its lair by a horde of ill-clad 
beaters. No surer indication as to the nature of 
the occasioner of this incessant uproar is needed 
by man or beast, and the lissome and the sinewy 
brute knows full well the significance of the 
clamor around him, for he shows his annoyance 
at the excited gesticulations of the quadruman- 
ous forms that are dogging his footsteps so per¬ 
sistently, by the utterance of an occasional angry 
snarl. 
We will now leave the sweltering plains of 
India, and cross the Indian Ocean, bound for the 
open and grassy veldt of Southern Africa, which 
half a century ago teemed with animal life, where 
countless battalions of antelopes of many differ¬ 
ent species roam far and wide, where the rolling 
karroo was black with game of every descrip¬ 
tion. But now the hunter naturalist will have 
to go further afield to find the object of his 
pursuit; and there are some animals for which 
lie will seek in vain, however long or carefully 
he may search, for they have been exterminated, 
wiped off the face of the earth by the ruthless 
hand of man. That unwieldy behemoth, the 
hippopotamus, now fast disappearing from the 
numerous rivers, which not so long ago used to 
be frequented by it in considerable numbers, has 
usually a small bird, scarce six inches in length, 
in close attendance. This feathered creature be¬ 
longs to the plover tribe, and has a somewhat 
sombre plumage, being brown on the upper parts, 
and white and black beneath; but it is readily 
distinguished by three distinctive bands on the 
throat. The amphibian allows this little com¬ 
panion to perch and climb about on its broad 
back, picking off the various parasites. The 
treble-colored plover, however, is useful in 
another way to the sea-cow, as the colonists 
term it; for when the slightest sign of danger 
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