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PET BIRDS OF BENGAL 



twee twee twee twee tweee tweee. The 

 Madras bird has a prolonged "sibilant 

 whistle — tseee-tseee-tseee''. 



The Bush-Lark evinces neither con- 

 vivial sociability nor peevish aloofness. 



Durino; the matin t>: -z 

 season, it lives in 

 pairs on account 

 >f the peculiar 

 demands of Nature. 



