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Magpie: 1952 and Chittagong University Campus
CHAPTER-1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 GENERAL
The magpie robin (Copsychus saularis Linnaeus, 1758) is most familiar and national bird of Bangladesh. It inhabits gardens, homestead forests, towns, open secondary growths and dry deciduous forests. It is usually seen near human habitations, hunting about for insects undisturbed by the presence of man, now singing its beautiful son perched on the top a past in a fence., a non flitting from one to another, sitting for a few minutes on each whilst it expands its tail into a fan and jerks it up until it nearly meets its head.
It is about 20–23 cm long and nearly the size of a bulbul (Ali and Ripley 1973, Islam and Kamruzzaman 2005). Male above, glossy blue – black, wings blackish brown, tail black with white outer rectices graduated. Below, throat and breast blue–black and female like male but blue – black replaced by slaty above and grey on throat and breast (Ali and Ripley 1973). The birds feed on variety of insects, ants, moths, etc. also snails, earthworms. And small lizards and some are vegetable matters (Ali and Ripley 1973).
The magpie robin is a cavity nester, and the nest consists of grass, rootless leaves, twigs and a variety of odd materials (Ali and Ripley 1973); line with similar materials. Nests have been found in holes in trees, in rainwater drain, pipes and under caves of buildings.
The breeding season of magpie robin overall February to August, mostly march to July (Ali and Ripley 1973) with some local variation; March to June (Western Maharashtra); some in Chittagong University Campus. Eggs usually 4 or 5, occasionally 3, exceptionally 6, pale green (Ali and Ripley 1973). Incubation period varied from 11 to 14 days.

1.2 SYSTEMATIC POSITION

Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Aves Order Passeriformes Family Muscicapidae

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