JULY. 
Tuis is in the plains the principal month for taking the eggs of 
the water-birds, wren warblers, and munias, while in the Himalayas the 
finches and buntings are the most numerous breeders. The birds of 
prey, parrots, hornbills, most of the woodpeckers and the barbets, the 
nuthatches and creepers, thrushes and blackbirds, and tits of almost all 
kinds, have ceased to lay. The shrikes, small minivets, the turtle doves, 
ringdoves are still breeding everywhere. And throughout the plains the 
eggs of the common drongo, tailor bird, rufous grass warbler, peafowl, 
bustard quail, red-wattled plovers, purple coots, common coots, and water- 
hens, may be taken. 
In the Himarayas, the eggs of the mosque swallow, the swift, the 
roller, the Marshall’s barbet, the common and large hawk cuckoos, 
paradise flycatcher, grey-headed and verditer flycatchers, the grey- 
winged blackbird, striated jay thrush, Nepal quaker thrush, red-billed 
wren babbler, several of the laughing thrushes, some of the bulbuls, 
bushchats, hill warblers, tree warblers and pipits, the rufous-breasted 
accentor, blue magpie, mynahs, munias, sparrows, bartailed tree doves, 
emerald doves, kalij pheasants, Hodgson’s partridges, chukor, peora 
partridge, bustard quail, rails, and bitterns may still be found, but the 
season is practically over, except in the more elevated ranges and towards 
the far west. Eggs of buntings and finches are found throughout the 
ranges, The golden woodchat begins to pair and build during this 
month. 
In the Punsas, the crested honey buzzard is still laying. The mosque 
and cliff swallows have their second brood. The white-breasted kingfisher 
and common gold back woodpecker breed throughout the month. Also 
the koel, coucal and sirkeer, the white-eared bulbul, the golden oriole, 
brown-backed robin, Stewart’s wren warbler, and all other wren warblers 
that occur there, the common crow, mynahs, pin-tailed munias, bushlarks 
and black-bellied finchlarks, the common sandgrouse, the black partridge, 
bustard, courier plover, red-wattled plover, white-necked stork, common 
heron, egrets, pond herons, cattle herons, green bitterns, night herons, 
and spoonbills have eggs. By the end of the month the Jdlack-winged 
kites, the large button quail, and Blyth’s water hen (very rare) are begin- 
ning to pair and build. 
