172 A BIRD CALENDAR 



Grey-headed and red-breasted flycatchers, 

 minivets, bush-chats, rose-finches and swallows 

 pour into the plains from the Himalayas, while 

 from beyond those mountains come redstarts, 

 wagtails, starlings, buntings, blue-throats, quail 

 and snipe. Along with the other migrants 

 come numbers of rooks and jackdaws. These 

 do not venture far into India ; they confine 

 themselves to the North-West Frontier 

 Province and the Punjab, where they remain 

 during the greater part of the winter. The 

 exodus, from the above-mentioned Provinces, 

 of the bee-eaters, sunbirds, yellow-throated 

 sparrows, orioles, red turtle-doves and paradise 

 flycatchers is complete by the end of October. 

 The above are by no means the only birds 

 that undergo local migration. The great 

 majority of species probably move about in a 

 methodical manner in the course of the year ; 

 a great deal of local migration is overlooked, 

 because the birds that move away from a 

 locality are replaced by others of their kind 

 that come from other places. 



During a spell of exceptionally cold weather 

 a great many Himalayan birds are driven by 

 the snow into the plains of India, where they 

 remain for a few days or weeks. Some of these 



