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bamboo-brakes, and patowal grass, and is usually seen not 

 far from water. It breeds in June, July, and August, or 

 possibly later, making a huge globular nest of sticks, grass, 

 and leaves, with a hole at the side, which is placed in some 

 thick tree or in long patGwal grass. The eggs, usually 

 four in number and chalky white (more spherical than 

 those of the Sirkeer Cuckoo), get discoloured as incubation 

 proceeds. Possibly this bird and T. leschenaulti have two 

 broods in the year. At any rate, Reid found very young 

 birds of both species as late as November. I think myself, 

 however, that these were the produce of abnormally late 

 nests. 



Average of 15 Lucknow eggs 1-38" x 1*14" 



Measurement of largest egg 1-41" x 1"17" 



„ smallest egg 1'37" X 1'12" 



No. 1136. PaLuEornis indoburmanicus. Large Burmese 

 Paroquet. 



Pahari tota [H.]. 



Reid has noticed this bird as appearing in flocks for a few 

 weeks during August and September. Undoubtedly a large 

 Paroquet does arrive at that time and is caught by the 

 chirri-mars, but, as I am always away during the two months 

 in question, I have never myself obtained it. I have none 

 of Reid's skins with me in England, but I cannot help 

 thinking that they are more likely to belong to P. nipalensis. 



No. 1138. PaljEornis torquatus. Rose-ringed Paroquet. 



Tota [H.]. Parrot [Anglo-Indian boys]. 



A common and permanent resident, doing considerable 

 damage to wheat and other crops. Large numbers have, 

 however, been captured during the last few years to meet 

 the demand of the millinery market in England, and in some 

 parts of the Division I am told that it has been almost 

 exterminated. March is the chief month for eggs, but the 

 birds begin to lay in February and a few as late as April. I 

 have, curiously, not found many nests, and those that I have 

 met with have always contained young or eggs just hatching. 

 The hole is cut by the bird, and the w 7 hite eggs, four in 

 number, as a rule, are laid on the bare wood. Reid gives 



