558 Mr. W. Jesse on the 



The eggs, usually three in number, arc brownish or greenish 

 ■white, but so densely marked with dark brown as to be in 

 many instances almost black. 



Average of 6 Lucknow eggs "TS" X '55" . 



Measurement of largest egg ul" x "55" 



„ smallest e^^ -TO" X '54" 



No. 77Q. Passer domesticus. House-Sparrow. 



Gonriya [H.]. 



As common and as great a nuisance as he is in any other 

 part of the world blessed with his presence. A pair made 

 a nest on a bracket in my drawing-room. When it contained 

 two eggs my bearer removed it bodily and brought it to me. 

 Some hours afterwards, noticing that the eggs were well 

 marked, I put the structure back again. The Sparrows 

 returned and laid three more eggs. I felt I ought to have 

 let them be hatched, but five young birds in a drawing-room 

 was too much of a good thing, so I confiscated the eggs and 

 banished the pair. These five eggs formed an exceedingly 

 pretty clutch and averaged '80" X '59". 



No. 795. Emberiza buchanani. Grey -necked Bunting. 



The Grey-necked Bunting is a common cold-weather 

 visitant, occurring in large flocks. Reid remarked : " Though 

 it resembles the Ortolan of Europe, and was for a long time 

 considered identical, it rarely, if ever, finds it way to the 

 table, in Lucknow at any rate, Avhere thousands of Social 

 and other Larks, if not Sparrows, are annually passed off" as 

 genuine Ortolans ! " 



No. 800. Emberiza luteola. Red-headed Bunting. 



Gaudam [H.]. 



A common cold-weather visitant. It avoids well-wooded 

 tracts, and, according to Reid, is especially fond of dhak- 

 jungle bordering on cultivation. It also aftects thatching- 

 grass when it is seeding. 



No. 803. Melophus melanicterus. Crested Bunting. 



Kulchira [II. Lucknow, teste Reid]. 



The Crested Banting is not, according to my experience, 



