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birds which have been found breeding in the North-West Provinces and 
central India. The Lgyptian bee eaters and desert finch larks com- 
mence nest building towards the end of the month. 
In the Norrn-West Provinces, the shikra, the short-toed 
serpent eagle, buzzards, kites, and most of the owls have still got eggs. 
The wire-tailed and mosque swallows, the sand martins, common swifts, 
blue-tailed bee eaters, the kingfishers, hornbill, green barbets, cuckoo 
shrikes, fantails, grey babblers, bulbuls, ioras, robins, chats, Sykes’s 
warbler, pied wagtails, treepies, bush larks, sand larks, finch larks, 
rock pigeons, jungle fowl, plovers, and the common cormorant are 
laying during this month: while the common drongo and the brahminy 
mynah are beginning to pair and build, alsoa few pairs of the concal 
and sirkeer build in the eastern parts. 
In Berwneat, the spotted eagle is laying. The large Bengal 
nightjar, the stork-billed kingfisher, the koel, the common wood 
shrike, the black-headed wren babbler, the red-whiskered bulbul, 
the common bulbul, Jerdon’s green bulbul, the black-headed oriole, the 
shama, the tailor bird, the white-backed munia, the orange-breasted 
green pigeon, Sykes’s turtle dove, the red jungle fowl, the kyah 
partridge, the common quail, and the painted snipe, all have egos 
during the month, besides many others common to it and central and 
western India. The long-legged and spotted eagles, the yellow-breasted 
and red-capped wren warblers, and the green pigeons are beginning to 
pair and build. 
In Centrat Inpia, the spotted eagle, buzzards, and kites are 
laying. The cliff swallow and crested swift have eggs. The jungle and 
Nilgiri nightjars have begun to lay, and the blue-tailed bee eaters, 
white-breasted kingfishers, rockchats, finch lJarks, painted  gand- 
grouse, jungle fowl, spur fowl, plovers, purple herons, as well as the 
common herons, are sitting. The lesser harrier eagle, Tickell’s blue 
redbreast, the striated marsh babbler, the green amadavat, and the 
brown rail begin to build towards the end of the month. 
In Sournern Inpra, the white scavenger vulture is still laying. 
The house and mosque swallows, dusky crag martins, Nilgiri night- 
jars, chestnut-headed bee eaters, little kingfishers, green barbets, 
Tickell’s flower-pecker, the velvet-fronted nuthatch, white-spotted 
fantail, the flycatchers, shortwings, whistling thrushes, blackbirds, 
quaker thrushes, wren babblers, scimitar babblers, bulbuls, robins, 
chats, wren warblers, pipits, white-eyed tits, tit larks, treeples, 
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