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while the green parrots are drawn towards 

 them on account of tlieh' fruits. In the 

 second edition of the Avifauna of British 

 India, Mr. Stuart Baker says, "The Gold- 

 fronted Chloropsis is found in small parties, 

 four to a dozen or so, throughout the non- 

 hreeding season". This observation appears 

 to be completely different from that in the 

 first edition where Gates stated that it lived 

 in pairs or alone. Finn ascribes it a savage 

 temper and says, "in the wild stage Mr. 

 Baker has seen two of these birds fight to 

 death." On the other hand, Legge says of 

 Jerdon's Chloropsis (C. jerdoni) that the 

 females collect in little flocks when not 

 breeding. May it not be that, like the latter, 

 the hens of the Gold-fronted Chloropsis also 

 collect in flocks during the non breeding season 

 and were observed by Mr. Stuart Baker ? 

 Little seems to be generally known 



regarding the nidification of this 



Nests and i . i -t-» . oj i -o i 



bud. But Stuart Baker orives 

 Eggs 



a very full account c>t its house- 

 building operations which last from May 



