Birds In and About the Station. 
keeping guard in the vicinity. 
TIk- ne tling plumage is pearly-grey, striated on the 
lu-ad back and tlirnal with a darker shade of the same colour ; 
the breast and undcrparts weTC unmarked : black and yellow 
barj adorned the wings, and a yellow patch the rump. 
Tht element of tragedy is very strong in this family's 
history, for I unfortunately killed the surviving young bird 
with an unlucky blow of the net when catching up, and the 
cock has since disappeared, presumably a victim of one of the 
\\'ea\ ers. 
The. young bird at the time of his death was just 
fou'- months old, and jiracticalh- indistinguishable from his 
mother. 
1 shall hope for better luck next year, as I have still 
a true jiair of this species left. 
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Birds in and about the Station. 
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The Indian Paradise Vlycatcher (Tcrps'phone par- 
adisi) probably attracts more attention than any other bird 
wc get, with its long white streamers and melodious call. 
It usually arrives about mid-April, the cock lirst, and re- 
mains till the end of October, the young birds staying the 
longest. I cannot agree with Gates that the notes are harsh, 
the alarm note certainly is so, but then most alarm notes 
are, even those of beautiful songsters such as the Shamah 
and the Grey-winged Ouzel. The loud melodious whistle 
consists of a fair number of notes, very frequently uttered, as 
often as not on the wing. 
Nearly all our visitors are fully adult birds, if one 
niay judge by the cocks. 1 have never seen more than two 
Red-tailed cocks about in any one season, while there must 
be at least thirty white-tailed ones. I have generally three 
pairs nesting in my compound alone each year. The Red- 
tailea cocks up here have always been bachelors, due, I 
suppose, id a paucity of hens; it appears to be no uncommon 
thing for red-tailed cocks to rear families in other places. 
