on the Paradise Flycatcher.



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of India, but undergoes a certain amount of local migration. In

the summer it ascends the hills to a considerable height. I11 the

Punjab it is a hot-weather visitor, coming viirabile dichi to that

parched country to breed ; but it invariably nests in a tree grow¬



ing by a river or in some well-irrigated orchard. In the hot

weather of 1906 a pair of Paradise Flycatchers built a nest in a

pear tree in my garden within eighty yards of the bungalow, so

that I had an excellent opportunity of observing their habits.


The pair in question consisted of a hen and a white cock;

but I have seen several pairs of which the cock is chestnut.



