garden areas just before dusk to feed for a short while, then return direct to their forest roost, flying high and direct when it is almost completely dark. They appear to shell seeds after dark as the patter on leaves is audible for 10 minutes or so after they perch. During the day when perched high in a teak (observe believes they perch in a teak for colour protection as such foliage suits admirably to blend into) they generally have a fairly wide field of vision and if a hawk passes over sometimes give an alarm call or if another Nymphicus they make a low chattering call. They often carry on this low chattering on sighting any bird in flight or for no apparent reason, but more often than not remain perfectly silent, and in all cases only low calls are made except an occasionally loud alarm call on seeing a human or hawk, or immediately before flying if frightened by a person below them. At such times they dive into the forest at some distance from the tree and apparently down to lower levels and are never seen again or heard. Generally speaking these birds are rather silent and very wary. Pair of birds and family parties behave entirely differently to these lone birds, but except for minor differ- ences family parties and pairs behave in the same way as each other such differences as do exist being much as one would expect the birds to adopt with young birds except that they make considerably more noise and call more frequently than do pairs which is hardly what one would expect from such a shy and wary species at a time when they are most vulnerable to attack. Generally speaking the behaviour of pairs is as follows. Very early they leave for wider field areas,