tall forest lands. A pair every 50 to 100 yards, in short forest the population is much denser and more irregular and does not ap- pear to be so strict in territory; or rather, territories overlap to a great degree. Lower scrubs carry a scattered, scantier population generally very regular in their territory and in margins of even lower scrubs, old coconuts etc. the population is even more scanty, though wider in area shows definite boundaries to its territory or area which it usually inhabits. In real forest at times of excitement a slight tendency to gathering in small parties is shown, in low forest this is even more apparent and mobs of up to a dozen or more become common except in gardens occurring on such areas, where visitors are generally single or rarely 2 to- gether but in the margins about the gardens numbers increase enormously and much excitement, fluttering and excited calling is noticeable. In other scarcely populated areas birds appear to become more widely scattered and seldom are two seen together even in small patches of scrub where for days past one has ob- served a pair feeding together within the territory and close about one spot always, and resenting intrusion of other birds in the territory they have established as their own. After normal- ity is restored birds apparently settle down to the old routine and the same pair return to their territory and remain there till the next period of excitement, in a month or so, occurs. Observer by shooting and observation tried to establish the fact that identical pairs returned to identical areas and though without rining this could not be definitel proved in every test, both in controls at time of normality and in times of excitement, the evidence seemed to definitely point to such being the case individual birds I believe do return to individual areas and resume normal relations.