tree, or in a dense clump of leaves, creepers or thicket within 15 feet of the ground in the tall dense forests. Their behaviour is in wide contrast with that of a pair of birds, either juveniles or adults. Juvenile pairs play a great deal in various levels in the forests but generally low down, but when in the teak tops will hop and play along the bare limbs of the teak, a thing adults seldom do. An adult pair (see field notes, dated 31/3/38) and family parties also behave differently to the above. All birds have the tall forest where they roost in a dark clump of leaves high in a teak (by bent tails observed in early morning) for the feeding places before daylight, actually at the first signs of dawn. They are exceedingly early movers and callers and call occasionally at night, (very softly, not much more than a chuckle) but an hour or so before the first faint streaks of dawn begin to appear, calls become more frequent and birds become restless. Generally while it is still actually dark, the first few stray calls of Lichmera beginning to sound here and there, Nymphius commences to move and flies a short dis- tance 20 yards or so and generally downwards to about the 15 or 20 ft. levels of the forest. Often one bird flies first, arrives and perches, gives a low call but more often is silent, then the second bird flies and perches near it and when perched generally gives a very low call, the first bird then flies on 20 yards or so and perches again and very often this mode of progression is continued till the feeding ground is reached at this early hour as often as not in the native garden areas. Often birds in pairs do not wait for the first one to settle but fly 5 to 10 feet behind the first bird but as far as I could see it was invariably the one bird flew first from each