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Identifier: indiansportingbi00finn (find matches)
Title: Indian sporting birds
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Finn, Frank, 1868-1932 Hume, Allan Octavian, 1829-1912 Marshall, Charles Henry Tilson, 1841-
Subjects: Birds -- India Game and game-birds -- India
Publisher: London : Francis Edwards
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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r plumage generally, however, the grey jungle-hen is much like the red, being of a similar brown, butunderneath she is very different—pure white, regularly edgedon each feather with black. To those who know tame poultryshe may well be called to mind as a bird with a Brown Leghornhens plumage above, and a Silver Wyandottes below. Cockshave red legs, and hens and young birds yellow. In weight this species averages a few ounces more than thelast, and it is more strongly built, but it seems to be farmore timid and less plucky in disposition, although now andthen found fighting furiously. So wary is it, and such a runner,that it affords but little sport unless it can be driven when work-ing the smaller sholas in the Nilgiris, where it is a well-knownbird—in fact, it is common all through the hill ranges ofSouthern India, and ranges occasionally as high as seventhousand feet. It likes thin rather than thick jungle, and isespecially attracted when bamboo or the strobilanthes under- ;■/
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II fi # oc i LU IfM z /■ *^ a * o /•• CO ■« -i^r. w*;. CO m u i» _J » _J 1 ■ < o .^ ^i^wjp- GREY JUNGLE-FOWL 175 growth is seeding. In the rains it spends a good deal of timein the trees even by day, and always roosts there. It is not nearly so sociable as the red jungle-fowl; aparty will only consist of an old pair and their young, and oldcocks, which are particularly wary, are often found alone. The note is just as characteristic in this species as theplumage; the crow is difficult to recognize as such at first, untilone observes the deliberateness and periodicity of its production.I can only describe and imitate it by putting in words howit struck me when I at last caught a captive specimen in the actof challenging : Oh lor! what a cac-kle ! Once known, how-ever, it can be recognized at a long distance; but the birds-only crow when in full feather, i.e., from October to May. The cackle of the cock is more easily compared to that of thered jungle-fowl ; it seems to c

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