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The yellow-billed chough. In summer this species is not usually seen at elevations below 11,000 feet. Garrulus bispecularis. The Himalayan jay. Not so abundant as in the Western Himalayas. Parus monticola. The green-backed tit. A common bird. Very abundant round about Darjeeling. Machlolophus spilonotus. The black-spotted yellow tit.
Montagu, G., on the habits of the black and red grouse; on the pugnacity of the ruff; on the singing of birds; on the double moult of the male pintail. Monteiro, Mr., on Bucorax abyssinicus. Montes de Oca, M., on the pugnacity of male Humming-birds. Monticola cyanea. Monuments, as traces of extinct tribes. Moose, battles of; horns of the, an incumbrance.
Tristram, some curious exceptions to the rule; thus the male of the Monticola cyanea is conspicuous from his bright blue colour, and the female almost equally conspicuous from her mottled brown and white plumage; both sexes of two species of Dromolaea are of a lustrous black; so that these three species are far from receiving protection from their colours, yet they are able to survive, for they have acquired the habit of taking refuge from danger in holes or crevices in the rocks.
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