252 BOMBAY DUCKS 
species. In the Madras Museum there is an exhibit of 
a coppersmith’s nest which was cut in a casuarina tree, 
The exhibit shows a young hopeful, looking out of the 
nest, with a wide-open beak, its invariable attitude when 
it catches sight of its parents. In nature, young birds 
do not, I think, as a rule, put their heads so far out of 
the nest, but the fact that the bird in the Museum does 
so has the advantage of enabling one to see that in 
plumage it differs from the adult in the absence of the 
crimson patches on the head and breast! 
