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other another red-vented form, expand their red under-tail-coverts

when excited, apparently courting.


White-eared Bulbue. Molpastes leucotis.


I have found this species very tame ; one which had only

been recently purchased escaped and came back to its cage ; it

prefers sleeping in a box.


Bengae Red-whiskered Buebul. Otocompsa enmia.


I once saw a wild pair quarrelling with one of the previous

species in the Indian Museum garden, and all expanded their

red under-tail-coverts. I think it was this pair which bred in

the Indian Museum grounds, the only pair I noted as breeding

there ; they fed their young on small dragon-flies.


Southern Red-whiskered Buebue. Otocompsa puscicaudata.


I have known one of these birds live in Bombay for five

years, caged with finches, and having access to nothing but fruit

and seed ; yet it was in good condition when shown me.


Beack-CRESTED Yeeeow Buebul. Otocompsa ftaviventris.


A specimen lived for about six years in the Calcutta Zoo. ;

it was very tame and would feed from the hand ; the species was

rarely on sale in Calcutta.


White-beelied Drongo. Dicrurus coeruiescens.


The late Mr. W. Rutledge, our well-known Calcutta dealer,

told me he had heard a caged specimen whistle a native tune.


Racket-tailed Drongo. Dissemurus paradiseus.


This bird will eat, in captivity at any rate, small vertebrates

as well as insects, and also vegetable food. I found it liked the

leaves of Boitgainvillea. It casts pellets.


Tailor-Bird. Orthotomus sutorms.


The young of this bird are not brighter than the parents,

as in so many Warblers, but duller, and have the chestnut cap

scarcely evident. I kept a young one (which I picked up in the

Indian Museum compound) for about a week, and often gave it

large flies and small dragon-flies, which it took easily ; it got

tame and apparently affectionate. It did not cast pellets; neither

does our Blackcap.


Ashy Swallow-Shrike or Wood-Swallow. Artamus fuscus.


I noticed that a bird of this species I fed on cockroaches

cast no pellets.



