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The pheasants of Dorjiling are poor, the deer all but uneatable, and the florican, however dressed, I considered a far from excellent bird. A good many plants grow along the streams, the sandy beds of which are everywhere covered with the marks of tigers' feet.
On the way home we bagged a florican and a very fine mallard, and reached the camp utterly fagged, to find our worthy magistrate very much recovered, and glad to congratulate us on our having bagged the tigress.
Outside nothing is heard beyond the cry of a stray florican, or guinea-fowl, which has lost her mate, or the hoarse croaking of the frogs in the pool hard by, or the song of the crickets which seems to lull the day to rest; inside our camp are heard the gurgles of the gourd pipes as the men inhale the blue ether, which I also love.
Bhowras or ground bees. The ursus labialis or long-lipped bear. Recross the stream. Florican. Stag running the gauntlet of flame. Our bag. Start for factory. Remarks on elephants. Precautions useful for protection from the sun in tiger shooting. The puggree. Cattle breeding in India, and wholesale deaths of cattle from disease. Nathpore. Ravages of the river. Mrs.
The animals taken to camp during our three days' sport were two buffaloes, two wild boar, three hartebeest, one zebra, and one pallah; besides which, were shot eight guinea-fowls, three florican, two fish-eagles, one pelican, and one of the men caught a couple of large silurus fish.
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