320 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



shaped cup, others were of a shallow saucer-shape, and one I found 

 late in the season, was a mere pad. They are composed of grass roots 

 and fibres, lined with hair and fine fern roots. 



The eggs, three or four in number, as often one as the other, are of 

 a broadish oval shape, measuring 079 inches in length by about 0*63 

 in breadth, but they vary a great deal in size. 



In colour, they are greenish-, greyish-, or brownish- white, more 

 or less densely speckled, spotted, and streaked with reddish- or 

 purplish-brown. 



I took a nest at Aboo, containing three unfledged nestlings, and 

 caught both the parent birds in a cage trap ; I had to leave forDeesa 

 the same day, as my leave was up, and two of the nestlings died on 

 the journey (there was no railway in those days), but the third, with 

 the old birds, I confined in a cage, and fed them on grasshoppers and 

 other insects, well pounded grass seeds, mixed with sopped bread and 

 the yolks of eggs, hard-boiled. The old birds paid great attention to 

 the little one, and they all soon became very tame, and either of them 

 would take a grasshopper from my hand, and after bruising it a little, 

 would give it to the nestling, refusing to eat themselves until his 

 wants were supplied. After a time I transferred them all to the 

 aviary, and when I left the station, eighteen months later, they were 

 bold sprightly birds, the cock especially, and the note although simple 

 Was pleasant. 



Mount Ahoo, Jul)/ and August. H. E. Barto-es. 



Khoud-tJ)Jt(U'i G/iut, KhandesJt, August. J. Daridsou, C.S. 



756.— THE RED-WINGED BUSH LARK. 



Mirafra erythroptera, Jerd, 



The Red-winged Bush Lark is rare in Sind, having only been 

 recorded from the plains at the foot of the hills that separate the 

 province from Khelat. It appears to be altogether absent from the 

 south-western portion of the Presidency, including Ratnagiri. 



Its place in Kanara is taken by Mirafra affinfe, but the latter is 



rare. 



In all other parts it is common, but not ascending the hills to any 



great height. 



