Footnote 2521: [(return)]
Ploceus baya, Blyth.; P. Philippinus, Auct.
Footnote 2531: [(return)]
The engraving above is taken by permission of Mr. Gould from one of his drawings for his Birds of India.
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There is another species, the C. culminatus, so called from the convexity of its bill; but though seen in the towns, it lives chiefly in the open country, and may be constantly observed wherever there are buffaloes, perched on their backs and engaged, in company with the small Minah (Acridotheres tristis), in freeing them from ticks.
Footnote 2541: [(return)]
WOLF'S Life and Adventures, p. 117.
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A similar habit has been noticed in the damask Parrots of Africa (Palæornis fuscus) which daily resort at the same hour to their accustomed pools to bathe.
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Similar instances are recorded in other countries of sudden and prodigious mortality amongst crows; but whether occasioned by lightning seems uncertain. In 1839 thirty-three thousand dead crows were found on the shores of a lake in the county Westmeath in Ireland after a storm.—THOMPSON'S Nat. Hist. Ireland, vol. i. p. 319. PATTERSON in his Zoology, p. 356, mentions other cases.
Footnote 2571: [(return)]
Annals of Nat. Hist. vol. xiii. p. 263.
Footnote 2572: [(return)]
Treron bicincta. Jerd.
Footnote 2581: [(return)]
Alsocomus puniceus, the "Season Pigeon" of Ceylon, so called from its periodical arrival and departure.
Footnote 2582: [(return)]
Chalcophaps Indicus, Linn.