. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. â JHE lEACoiK rilEASAXTS. .successive moult ; Imt it ap^tears to l>e shed very irregularly. TJiougli it cannot lie said to l>e ». favoiuite with sportsmen in India, few can resist a shot at ii tine Peacock whiiring past when hunting for small game. Yet Peachicks are well worth a niornin.^^'s shikar for the table, and a [ilump young Peahen, if kept for two or three days, is I'eally excellent. An old Peacock is only fit for souj)." A bird merely winged will often escape l>y the tieetness of its running. They generally roost oi
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. â JHE lEACoiK rilEASAXTS. .successive moult ; Imt it ap^tears to l>e shed very irregularly. TJiougli it cannot lie said to l>e ». favoiuite with sportsmen in India, few can resist a shot at ii tine Peacock whiiring past when hunting for small game. Yet Peachicks are well worth a niornin.^^'s shikar for the table, and a [ilump young Peahen, if kept for two or three days, is I'eally excellent. An old Peacock is only fit for souj)." A bird merely winged will often escape l>y the tieetness of its running. They generally roost oi> particular trees, and by going early or late to this place they can readily be shot. Peafowl are easily. PHE.\S, caught in snares or common hair nooses, and are generally brought in alive for sale in numbers in those districts where they abound. In confinement they will destroy snakes and other reptiles, and in their wild state feed much on various insects and grubs, also on flower buds and young shoots, as well as on gi'ain. In the same sub-family are to be found the Peacock Pheasants {Polyplectron), which inhabit the eastern Himalayas and the mountains of the Indo-Malayan islands. In colour they are brown, as a rule, but the tail has a number of green or purple spots, like the " ocelli" of a Peacock, and this peculiarity has gained for them the popular title of " Peacock" Pheasants. Finally, with the Pea- fowl must be placed the magnificent Ai-gus Pheasants, of which there are two species known, the common Argus from Malacca, and the Gray's Argus from Borneo. In its wild state the Argus Pheasant is seldom or never seen, but it is frequently trapped by the Malays, who set springs in the woods where they see the truck of a Pheasant, and thus capture not only the Argus but all sorts of 44. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of t
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