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and a few of the king vultures are the only vultures with eggs at 
this season. The lagear faleon, the red-headed merlins, the changeable 
hawk eagles, buzzards, kites, and most of the owls, are still laying. 
All the swallows and martins, the blue-tailed bee eater, the roller, 
the parrots, woodpeckers and barbets, the flower-peckers, honey 
suckers, nuthatches, robins, chats, titlarks, carrion crows, larks 
of all kinds, green pigeons, emerald doves, grey partridges, bush 
quail, common quail, most of the plovers, the river terns, and the 
scissor bills haye all got eggs. The following birds not included in 
the list that follows begin building during the month, and should be 
watched :—The shikra hawk, the jungle owlet, the blue-rujfed bee eater, 
the northern grey hornbill, the large grey cuckoo shrike, Sykes» 
warbler, and the common cormorant. 
In Bene@at, the palm roof swift in the Garo hills lays throughout 
the month. The large Bengal nightjar, the white-breasted kingfisher, 
the red-breasted paroquet, the Indian loriquet, the yellow-fronted wood- 
pecker, Franklin’s green barbet, the koel, honey suckers, flower- 
peckers, the common wood shrike, the common babbler, the red- 
whiskered and white-winged green bulbul, the black-headed oriole, 
the black crow, Sykes’ turtle dove, the red jungle fowl, the kyah par- 
tridge, plovers, river terns, and scissor bills all have eggs. The species 
that commence nest-building during the month are Jerdon’s green 
bulbul, the shama robin, and the white-backed munia. 
In Centrat InptA, the cliff swallows, crag martins, blue-tailed 
bee eater, little kingfisher, rock chat, rufous-tailed finch lark, 
painted spur fowl, and plovers are the characteristic species that lay 
during the month, but many of the species that breed at this time in 
northern, and particularly southern India, breed also now in central 
India. The species that begin Palen in this month are the jungle 
aightjar and the purple heron. 
In Soutnern Inpra, the kestril is still laying, and probably some 
of the owls. The jungle nightjar, chestnut-headed bee eater, little 
kingfisher, lesser green woodpecker, the green barbet, the sirkeer, flower- 
pecker, some  shrikes, flycatchers, thrushes, blackbirds, quaker 
thrushes, babblers, laughing thrushes, bulbuls, robins, chats, the 
ashy wren warbler, titlark, tits, long-tailed  treepie, mynahs, 
larks, grey jungle fowl, red spur fowl, and red-winged bush quail 
are the kinds that breed throughout the month. The white-bellied 
short wing in the Pulneys, and the green pigeons and Nilgiri wood 
pigeons commence building their nests. 
