Birds of the Indian Hills 



back is dull yellow, and the lower plumage 

 bright yellow. Notwithstanding all this yellow, 

 the bird is not conspicuous except during flight, 

 because the wings when closed cover up nearly 

 all the yellow. This bird frequents all the 

 hill streams. At Naini Tal any person may be 

 tolerably certain of coming across it by going 

 down the Khairna road to the place where that 

 road meets the stream. The nest of this 

 species is a beautiful pocket of moss attached 

 to some moss-covered rock or tree. 



The rufous-bellied niltava (Niltava sundara) 

 or fairy blue-chat, as Jerdon calls it, is the kind 

 of bird one would expect to find in fairyland. 

 The front and sides of the head, and the chin 

 and throat of the cock are deep velvety black. 

 His crown, nape, and lower back, and a spot 

 on cheeks and wings, are glistening blue. He 

 also sports some light blue in his tail. His 

 lower plumage is chestnut red. The upper 

 plumage of the hen is olive brown save for a 

 brilliant blue patch on either side of the head. 

 Her tail is chestnut red. This beautiful species 

 is about the size of a sparrow. 



Even more splendid is the paradise flycatcher 



(Terpsiphone paradisi). The hen, and the cock, 



when he is quite young, look rather like speci- 



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