new perch. This mode of progression was much more rapid than the other and was generally used when returning to forest areas from garden lands, such return generally commencing very soon after sunrise. In the case of families of 4, one bird went first almost invariably and the 3 others came in a bunch after the first had perched. Single birds often flew high and direct or nearly so to feeding grounds, but also often flew in 30 yds, short flights, flights generally of longer distances than a pair or more birds. Single birds generally fed later in wider field areas than pairs and parties and almost invariably returned high and direct to forest from half to 1 hour after sunrise (very rarely later than that) and generally flew well into the forest 100 to 150 yards from the margins. They then perched high or low in forests, more often high and appeared to regurgitate seeds and shell them, ejecting the husk or shell as a faint patter could be heard on the leaves immediately below the birds. These single birds generally an hour or so later fly down into the lower forest levels 15 ft. or 20 from the ground, (in the secondary forest trees and shrubs under the taller forest trees) invariably keeping a leaf canopy between them- selves and the sky and commence to feed again in these lower levels, very silent and invariably alone never calling unless a single alarm call on being disturbed on sighting danger or a human. They occasionally remain motionless in some secluded spot in such places but more often return to a high position in a teak and remain motionless there, well hidden till about 4 o'clock in the afternoon when they return to the lower forest levels to feed, and occasionally from there return to