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INSECTIVOROtyS BIRDS 



is unused by the owners. Both sexes take part in incuba- 

 tion and in the rearing of the young, the male taking as 

 keen an interest in the acting of a canopy for the new-born 

 as the mother bird. 







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Fig. 30. White-fronted Chat, male and female. One-fourth natural 



Here is another foster-parent for the Narrow-billed 

 Bronze Ouckoo. In a recent December I found an egg 

 of the wanderer unsuccessfully foisted upon a pair of chats, 

 for it had either not been placed in the nest or had been 

 ejected to the wide edge. There it lay uncared for. 



