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place rather damp than dry. The hen will lay about six eggs, at intervals of two, three, 

 four, or even five days. When the set is completed it will be noticed that she will 

 spend the night upon the nest. Both the artificial Qgg and any of the Impeyan which 

 may be in the nest should now be removed, and the nest hollow completely covered for 

 a period of about twelve days. Then by uncovering and replacing the artificial tgg, 

 the second laying may be induced, and in a similar fashion even a third set of eggs. 

 By this procedure twelve to fifteen eggs can be obtained each year from each lophophore 

 hen. After June 15th no more eggs may be expected. 



The eggs are to be placed under a brooding hen, the time of incubation being 

 twenty-seven days, and not thirty as many authors state. The hen should be shut up 

 with her chicks for several days and then liberated in the aviary. Hard-boiled eggs, 

 bread-crumbs and ants' eggs should be provided for the young birds. It is well to 

 provide quantities of living larvae of ants and other insects. The drinking water 

 should be boiled until the birds are three months old. 



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TEXT IDENTIFICATIONS 



Hume, Game-birds of India, I. p. 125. 



Macintyre, Hindu-Koh, p. 83. 



Sikhim Coal Tit, Lophophanes beavam Blyth. 



Himalayan Brown Tit, Lophophanes dichrous (Hodgson). 



Rufous Pied Woodpeckers, Hypopicus hyperythriis (Vigors). 



Black-throated Thrushes, Merula atrigularis (Temminck). 



White-collared Thrush, Merula albicincta (Royle). 



Spotted Dove, Turtiir suratensis (Gmelin). 



Golden Eagle, Aquila chrysaetus (Linnaeus). 



Cat-bear, Aelurus fiilgens Cuvier. 



Wardlaw-Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 70. 



Hume, Game-birds of India, I. p. 130. 



Snow Cocks, Tetraogallus. 



Wilson, in Hume's Game-birds of India, I. p. 128. 



Adams, Proc. Zool, Soc, 1858, p. 500. 



Tyler, Ibis, 1868, p. 194. 



Himalayan Creeper, Certhia discolor Blyth. 



Beech Marten, Mzistela foina Erxleben. 



Grey Fox, Vulpes alopex (Linnaeus). 



Wild Dog, Cy on jav alliens dukhumensis Sykes. 



Golden Eagle, Aquila ehrysaetus (Linnaeus). 



Bonelli's Eagle, Hiera'etus fasciatus (Vieillot). 



Spotted Hawk-Eagle, Spizaetus nepalensis (Hodgson). 



Goshawk, Astur paliimbarius (Linnaeus). 



Thayer, Auk, 1896, p. 124. 



Rodon, Jour. Bombay Nat. His. Soc, XIII. p. 185. 



Donald, Jour. Bombay Nat. His. Soc, XIV. p. 174. 



Rodon, Jour. Bombay Nat. His. Soc, XII. p. 573. 



Smith, Avicultural Magazine, N.S. VII. p. 160. 



Crested Black Tit, Periparus melanolophus (Vigors). 



Himalayan Nutcracker, Nucifraga hemispila Vigors. 



Black and Yellow Grosbeaks, Pycnorhamphus icteroides (Vigors). 



Langur Monkeys, Semnopitheeus entellus (Dufresne). 



Hume, Game-birds of India, I. p. 131. 



St. Quintin, Avicultural Magazine (3), HI. p. 150. 



Hume, Game-birds of India, I. p. 130. 



Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1858, p. 500. 



Marienval, Bull. Soc. d'Acclim., 1876, p. 800. 



Dewar, Bird Notes, VIII. p. 225. 



