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PET BIRDS OIT BENGAL 



Bengal but it is 

 rare in the im- 

 mediate vicinity 

 of Calcutta. To 

 the West it is 

 found in the 

 Ajmere district 



up to Mt. Abu. 

 Here there is a 

 break in the 

 continuity of the distribution, for immediately 

 east of Abu and up to Bundelkhand, the 

 country is inhabited by another species of 

 I or a. 



Every orchard and garden give shel- 

 ter to this active and restless bird. 

 Amidst the thick foliage of the 

 spreading mango, tamarind, 

 and clumps of tall and nodd- 



hours 



Field 

 Notes 



ing bamboos, the lora keeps foi 



