Abstract
A Blue-Magpie, Cyanopica cyanus, kept free in the author's garden often enjoys smoke-bathing when oven is burnt. Its fire-bathing is a peculiar behaviour which it performs first flying into the remains of burning sticks thrown out of the oven and tumbles about back-side down on it about 4 seconds, after which the preening is done on a perch. Thus, the tips of the wings and tail become burnt. Moreover, it also takes a pieces of burnt stick and its fire-end is rubbed on the inner side of the wings. Its taking of burnt sticks to everywhere about is a dangerous habit.
