Indian Birds 
A black bird, white cheeks and rump, and 
white bar at base of wing; lower parts grey. 
Beak orange with white tip ; orange patch of 
skin behind the eye. 
This bird differs from the other mynas in 
that it builds a large nest in a tree, usually at 
no great altitude. 
Occurs only in U. P., C. P., the Bengals, and 
Assam. (Illus. G. B., p. 16.) 
The Flycatchers, §5-60 
Flycatchers are birds which feed exclusively 
on insects, which they catch upon the wing. 
Their habit is to make, from some perch, little 
sallies into the air after their quarry. It must, 
however, not be forgotten that birds other 
than flycatchers, as, for example, the king 
crow and the wagtails, also hunt for insects in 
this manner ; so that it is not safe to set down 
a bird as a flycatcher merely because it makes 
little sallies into the air after insect quarry. 
A considerable number of species of fly- 
catcher occur in India, but the great majority 
of them are confined to the hills. The follow- 
ing, however, are likely to be seen in the plains, 
Nos. 57-60 being especially abundant. 
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