ENGLISH LEARNING

Childhood Memories of Losar New clothes under pillows Are fresh of smell  And sharp of crease. The morning lies veiled  In the mysteries of purple light. How long this twitching and turning continue Till from teasing sleep I come walking To virginal lights of the Losar morning- To reminiscent hustle and bustle-  To sweet fragrance of burnt juniper Mother offers rice cakes to gods Father blesses with crisp rupee notes Men, women, children drink chang. Bend a little on the knees Spin on your heels and toes  A - tishoo! a - tishoo!  We all have fun. - Guru T. Ladhaki  For Solved Exercises of this poem, click on the link below:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJTgYmbQGweWg7n1IMh3PCA/join

THE LITTLE FORKTAIL Enicurus scouleri Vigors Enicurus scouleri Vigors, 1832, Proc. Zool. Soc. London: 174 Himalayas. LOCAL NAME: Oong sumbrek-pho (Lepcha) SIZE: Sparrow FIELD CHARACTERS: A stub tailed miniature of the Spotted Forktail. Above, forehead and forecrown white; rest of head, neck and back black. Wings black, spotted with white at shoulder, and with a broad triangular white bar. Rump and upper tail-coverts white, the former with a broad black band across it. Below, throat and upper breast black; rest of under parts white. Tail short, slightly forked, of the same black-and-white pattern as in female Plumbeous Redstart. Sexes alike.   STATUS AND HABITAT: Fairly common with a wide overall altitudinal range, between c.1000 and 10,000ft. (Singtam, Martam,Dikchu, Singhik, Toong, Chungthang, Lachen, Lachung). Affects rocky, torrential mountain streams, and nullahs with cascades and waterfalls. DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE SIKKIM: SE. Turkestan and Altai Mountains; throughout the Himalayas f