. Indian sporting birds . yjiMij •^ >-. ^^Vwr BAMBOO PARTRIDCiE 221 and some of these were still there in June of the following year,but were not seen later. Like a partridge, this bird is found in coveys, as well as inpairs or alone ; it is extremely hard to put up out of the longgrass or other low cover in which it lives, finding its food in thegrass-seeds, and only taking a short slow flight when presence, however, often betrayed by its whistling call,which is quite peculiar. Being a hard bird to shoot and pooreating, there is not much inducement to go after it, and for
. Indian sporting birds . yjiMij •^ >-. ^^Vwr BAMBOO PARTRIDCiE 221 and some of these were still there in June of the following year,but were not seen later. Like a partridge, this bird is found in coveys, as well as inpairs or alone ; it is extremely hard to put up out of the longgrass or other low cover in which it lives, finding its food in thegrass-seeds, and only taking a short slow flight when presence, however, often betrayed by its whistling call,which is quite peculiar. Being a hard bird to shoot and pooreating, there is not much inducement to go after it, and for thelast thirty-eight years none have been seen or heard of either inIndia or anywhere else. Bamboo Partridge. Bamhusicola fijtchii. The general impression made by this bird may be judged ofby the fact that an escaped specimen in England some yearsago figured in a sporting paper as a hybrid between a partridgeand a pheasant; it is, indeed, a partridge in size, but its tail inlength and form rather recalls the pheasant type. The plumac^eis
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