. Indian sporting birds . e bird isnocturnal altogether, and does not leave the shelter of the junglein the day-time, while even at night it is the beach, and not thegrass-land inland of the jungle-belt which it frequents. Althoughmostly a ground-bird, it often alights in a tree, and flies likea jungle-fowl. Its note is also like the cackling of a hen. Thesebirds are a most valuable game-bird; they are abundant, beingfound often in flocks as well as pairs, give much the same sort ofsport as jungle-fowl, and are, according to Hume, who was verycritical about birds table qualities, exceptionally
. Indian sporting birds . e bird isnocturnal altogether, and does not leave the shelter of the junglein the day-time, while even at night it is the beach, and not thegrass-land inland of the jungle-belt which it frequents. Althoughmostly a ground-bird, it often alights in a tree, and flies likea jungle-fowl. Its note is also like the cackling of a hen. Thesebirds are a most valuable game-bird; they are abundant, beingfound often in flocks as well as pairs, give much the same sort ofsport as jungle-fowl, and are, according to Hume, who was verycritical about birds table qualities, exceptionally good on thetable, being both fat and succulent. Their food appears tobe mostly animal, consisting of grubs and small snails; incaptivity the young thrive on white ants. Since as many as twenty eggs can be taken out of a moundand the young are easily reared, the Government should surely beapproached with a view to disseminating this valuable bird all overour tropical islands where natural conditions are at all QC CO CO^ ID X ID ^VXj^^ 277 INDEX. Amheest Pheasant, 203Andamanese Banded Crake, 106Andaman Teal, 21Andersons Silver Pheasant, lJ2Arakan Hill-Partridge, 245Argus, 167 ,, Crested, 170Armstrongs Yellowshanks, 101 Bamboo-Partridge, 221Bar-headed Goose, 60Bar-tailed Godwit, 98Bean-Goose, 05Bewicks Swan, 71Black-backed Goose, 45Kalij, 187Black-bellied Sand-grouse, 150Black Partridge, 230Black-tailed Godwit, 96Black-throated Hill-Partridge, 246Blewitts Painted Bush-Quail, 258Blue-breasted Banded Rail, 140Blue-winged Teal, 10Blyths Tragopau, 212Brahminy Duck, 51Bronze-backed Monaul, 21GBronze-capped Duck, 9Brown-breasted Hill-Partridge, 248Brown Crake, 112Burmese Prancolin, 234Peafowl, 161Sarus, 121,, Yellow-legged Button-Quail,272Bush-Quail, Blewitts, 258 Humes, 259 Ingliss, 259 Jungle, 253 Painted, 256 Rock, 255Bustard, European Great, 143,, Great Indian, 131„ Little, 141Bustard-Quail, 267 Button-Quail, Burmese Yellow-legged,272,, ,, Indian Yellow-legged, 270,,
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