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Eggs I see no mention of their building in bamboos, but here they very often 

 do so. Some natives believe their flesh is a cure for consumption. The 

 colours of the soft parts of a nestling were as follows :— Bill, upper mandible 

 dark horn colour, lower mandible and gape yellow fleshing ; iris brown ; legs 

 and feet brownish plumbeous. Native name Mohoha. 



(145) C, BENGALENsis. — The Lesser Coucal. 

 Blanford, No. 1133 ; Hume, No. 218. 

 I have only secured two specimens of this species in the District and seen 

 two others ; it must be very rare. My two birds were shot at Narhar in De- 

 cember and January and are in winter plumage. 



Order Psittaci. 

 Family Psittacidce. 

 (146) Pal^obnis nepalensis. — The Large Indian Paroquet, 

 Blanford, No, 1135 ; Hume, No. 147 ter, 

 I found this species not uncommon round Jainagar but noticed it nowhere 

 else. Two males shot on the 19th January had the testes greatly enlarged 

 and a pair were seen excavating in a large mango tree in the middle of Febru- 

 ary. They only worked at the hole for a few days and then deserted it, I 

 have never found the eggs or young, 



(147) P. TORQUATUS. — The Eose-riaged Paroquet. 

 Blanford, No. 1138 ; Hume, No. 148. 

 Very common. It breeds here from March to May, but I have found very 

 few nests. Numbers of them, in company with Columba intermedia, breed in 

 holes ill an old pucca temple at Laheria Serai. Native name Sooga or Tota. 

 (148) P. CYANOCEPHALUs, — The "Western Blossom-headed Paroquet. 

 Blanford, No. 1139 ; Hume, No. 149. 

 This species is also common, numbers being seen in the Indian corn and 

 millet fields in August. They also do considerable damage to the paddy. 

 I have never found the nest, 



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