232 Stray Notes on Indian Birds.


case of “ skipping ” the young plumage. These birds are easy

to rear and very tameable, but very pugnacious at times with

each other. The fourth toe is reversible, and will come sideways

or even forwards when the bird is climbing ; I have noted this

also in other Woodpeckers.


Beue-THROATED Barbet. Cyanops asiatica.


The young of this species begin to call while yet nest¬

lings ; the throat swells when they are calling, and the call,

as I have observed in these young birds, is kept up for hours.

The young fight much with each other, but adults are the least

quarrelsome of all Indian Barbets I have seen.


Crimson-breasted Barbet. Xantholaema haematocephala.


The young want the black on the head as well as the

crimson. They have the bill pale at base, orbital skin livid

fleshy instead of red, and legs also dull fleshy. One I kept began

calling before the tail was full grown. I have reared both this

species and the last on banana only.


Correction. —I see in my last month’s notes that I gave

the date of my meeting with a specimen of the Claret Finch as

1892 ; it should be 1902.


(To be continued).



OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1909-10.



The Council recommend, in accordance with Rule 9, that

Miss D. Hamilton and Mr. B. C. Thomasset should retire from

that body by seniority, and that Messrs. E. J. Brook and D. Seth-

Smith should be elected in their places; also that Mr. W. P.

Ogilvie-Grant be elected as Auditor, and Mr. Arthur Gill is

Scrutineer.



