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is entirely satoo and a few maggots, and it 

 seems to thrive quite well on that diet. 

 It has a vulgar way of feeding, — it never eats 

 from the pot but scatters the food all over 

 the cage and then begins to eat leisurely. 

 It would make the cage most inconceivably 

 dirty as soon as the food is placed in. Besides 

 satoo, it may be given chhena (soaked gram), 

 bread-crumbs and, occasionally, scraps of 

 banana and shreds of meat or a few earth- 

 worms. This bird, too, is very fond of 

 bathing for which provision must be made. 

 How fond it is of a bath may be gathered 

 from Butler's account of his specimen which 

 used to bathe even in mid-winter. 



It is a very early riser and begins its 

 song with the first glimmerings of day-light. 

 At noon it becomes comparatively silent. 

 My bird used to arouse me from sleep with 

 its trilling notes every morning as soon as 

 the eastern sky -became splashed with Ver- 

 million and pink. The sound of falling 

 water seems to me to be in some way con- 

 nected with this bird's impetus to sing. 



