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In such places I found a good many birds, among which were the fine cream-coloured pigeon, Carpophaga luctuosa, and the rare blue-headed roller, Coracias temmincki, which has a most discordant voice, and generally goes in pairs, flying from tree to tree, and exhibiting while at rest that all-in-a-heap appearance and jerking motion of the head and tail which are so characteristic of the great Fissirostral group to which it belongs.
Another small bird with habits similar to the last. An olive-brown bird with a chestnut-red cap. The lower parts are reddish yellow. Myiophoneus temmincki. The Himalayan whistling-thrush. Common at Darjeeling. Lioptila capistrata. The black-headed sibia, one of the most abundant birds about Darjeeling. Actinodura egertoni. The rufous bar-wing. A bird about the size of a bulbul.
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