JOURNAL 



OF THE 



BOMBAY 



itatap! lfet0im 



No. 2.3 



BOMBAY, 1890. 



[Vol. v. 



NESTING IN WESTERN INDIA. 



By Lteitt. H. E. Barnes. 

 (Continued from page 19.) 



631.— THE WHITE-EYED TIT. 



Zosterops palpebrom, Tent. 



The White-eyed Tit is extremely rare in Sind, but occurs more 

 or less commonly throughout the rest of the Presidency. In most 

 places they are, I believe, permanent residents, but are often over- 

 looked, as during the breeding season they are only found in well- 

 wooded secluded nullahs ; but in Poona, where they are very com- 

 mon, I have found nests in the middle of cantonments. The breed- 

 ing season extends from the end of April to about the commence- 

 ment of September, but June is the month in which most nests are 

 fo\md. I do not think that they have more than one brood in the 

 season, as up to the first week in June nests are few and far 

 between, but after this date they become very common, and I have 

 found as many as twenty nests in a morning in a single nullah. 

 After the second week in July, they again become rare, an occa- 

 sional nest only being met with, and this probably belongs to a pair 

 of birds whose first nest has been robbed. 

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