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is found in flocks that may number as many as thirty or forty indivi- 
duals, though this is exceptional. It is a common cage-bird with all 
classes of natives.” 
Over the whole of its range this character for shyness given it by 
Robinson seems to hold good, and nowhere do I find any record of its 
being the familiar village-bird that the Common Spotted Dove so often 
is. At the same time in some parts of northern Burma, in the more 
populous, cultivated areas, it is comparatively tame and confiding. 
It has the same habit of frequenting roads and village-paths in 
search of food as has the previous bird, and, like that, when disturbed, 
gets up with the same fluster of wing and expanded tail, and also like 
that bird makes for the nearest tree for refuge. Both these subspecies 
have a predilection for sitting on dead trees or on dead branches of 
live ones, and may often be seen in cultivated clearings, in which the 
few trees left standing are all ringed and dead, perched in numbers 
high up on their leafless boughs. 
As a rule they go about in pairs, and though sociable and fond of 
collecting in numbers in their feeding-haunts, they are not generally 
considered gregarious in the true sense of the word. 
