MARCH. 
Tue birds of prey are still in full season, and though many of the 
larger kinds have ceased to lay their places are filled by others, especially 
among the owls. Most of the bee eaters, kingfishers, parrots, wood- 
peckers, barbets, nuthatches, larks, plovers, and terns are either laying 
or building, and several species of swifts, goatsuckers, shrikes, fly- 
catchers, thrushes, babblers, bulbuls, chats, warblers, titlarks, jays, 
mynahs, and game birds are beginning to lay. 
In the Himatayas, the king vulture is still laying, also the 
bearded vulture (Lammergeyer), the black-capped falcon, and Bonelli’s 
eagle. The crested serpent eagle, the long-legged buzzard and the 
greater Indian kite, and several of the owls are laying. The slaty- 
headed paroquet and the scaly-bellied green woodpecker have eggs. 
The white-tailed and velvet-fronted nuthatches, the hoopoe, the bronzed 
drongo, the ashy swallow shrike, the verditer flycatcher, the Nepal 
quaker thrush, the white-browed warbler, the white-eyed tit, the 
red-capped, crested black, and mountain tits, the nutcracker, magpie 
and jay, the large hill mynah, the tree sparrow, and the white-crested 
king pheasant all begin laying ; and the goshawk, Himalayan fishing 
eagle, collared pigmy owlet, common swallow, crag and Kashmir 
martins, Hodgson’s trogon, roseband paroquet, woodpeckers, piculets, 
flower-peckers, tree-creepers, raquet-tailed drongos, chestnut-bellied 
chat thrush, white-collared ouzels, missel thrush, red-headed wren 
babbler, rufous-necked and rusty-cheeked scimitar babblers, black 
—gorgetted laughing thrush, iron grey bushchat, blue-headed redstart, 
black-eared and grey-headed warblers, western spotted forktails, yellow- 
cheeked tits, blue magpies, green jays, and spotted-winged stares are 
all pairing and building. 
In the Punsas, the vultures, hawks, falcons, and true eagles are 
still laying, also the short-toed eagle. The buzzards and several owls 
commence laying. The dusky crag martin, the pied kingfisher, the 
grey shrike, the babblers, the streaked scrub warbler, the streaked 
wren warbler, the raven, the larks, doves, the common sandgrouse, 
the common quail, the big bustard, most of the plovers, the common 
heron, the king curlew, most of the terns, and the scissor bill have 
eges during the month; and the painted sandgrouse, the seesee 
partridge, the lesser button quail, and the guil-billed terns are 
pairing and making their nests. 
In the Norta-Wesr Provinces, the white scavenger vulture 
