. Indian sporting birds . , when the birds come down to thefoot of the hills near the trees to which they resort to roost,though occasionally a shot could be got at one as it crossed apath. He found the birds stood captivity well, and he rearedchicks to maturity, which conflicts with what others say aboutthe difhculty of keeping the pheasants of this group. But inthese matters a great deal must be allowed for skill, and , as a medical man, would naturally bring more intelligenceto his task than the ordinary man in the street who isgenerally a hopeless bungler with live stock, even if
. Indian sporting birds . , when the birds come down to thefoot of the hills near the trees to which they resort to roost,though occasionally a shot could be got at one as it crossed apath. He found the birds stood captivity well, and he rearedchicks to maturity, which conflicts with what others say aboutthe difhculty of keeping the pheasants of this group. But inthese matters a great deal must be allowed for skill, and , as a medical man, would naturally bring more intelligenceto his task than the ordinary man in the street who isgenerally a hopeless bungler with live stock, even if he isinterested in them from a sportmg or natural history point ofview, unless he has had some experience with tame things. The birds usually go in pairs or small parties up to ten innumber. All that is known about the breeding is that a chickso young as to measure only two inches in the closed wing, isrecorded by Scully as captured in June ; it was rufous brown onthe head and dirty buff below, with no stripes BLACK-BACKED KALIJ 187 Black-backed Kalij. *Gennaus melanonotiis. Muthura, Bengali. The black-backed kalij of Sikkim, although generally similarto the last two species, blue-black above and dirty white below,differs from both in having no white at all on the upper surface,not only the crest, but also the rump being blue-black continuouswith the rest of the upper parts, whose silky purple seems to meparticularly uniform and rich in this species. The crest, as inthe last species, is not so long as in the white-crested kind ; butthe bird seems to be quite as large. The weights of these kalijes,however, intergrade so that size cannot be considered of anyimportance in dealing with them. The hen is of the same sober brown as that of the other two,with narrow crest; but like that of the Nepal kalij, she israther darker altogether than the hen of the white-crested legs are described as pale horny brown, darker than thoseof the white-crested. This kalij exten
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