Indian Birds 



Name No. of 



Call of Bird in 



Bird Part II 



A shrill, trembling scream . . The Swift 124 



A sound like a stone sliding] The Common 



over ice J Nightjar 126 



Chuk. chuk. chuk, like thel_.^ _ , ,, 

 r 1 1 .,1 Horshelds 

 tappme: 01 a plank with a ^ t^^. , . 

 , ^^ ^ ^ Nmhtjar 127 



hammer J ° ** ^ 



A crescendo " brain-fever, brain- \ Brain-fever 



/^Z/^f, BRAIN -FEVER " . . J Bird . .128 



K crescendo ^''hi-il^ku-il^Yiv-ii.^'' The Koel 130 

 A low, sonorous, owl-like 2^Z>o^/,)TheCrow- 



whoot, whoot ) Pheasant 131 



Loud screams uttered during] The Paro- 



flight j quets 132-134. 



" A torrent of squeak and' 



chatter and gibberish," 



kucha, kzoachee, kzoachee, 



kwachee, khwachee rapidly 



uttered in a shrieking, chat- 

 tering tone ^ 



A • 1 11 1 ' ^ (The Barn 



A weird screech, heard at night j q , ^ 



A single hoot repeated mono-] ^ 



tonously at regular intervals r |-. i 

 of ten seconds, oomp . . .J • • 3 



72 



The Spotted 

 Owlet . 135 



