150 JULY. 
In the Norta-West Provinces, the birds of prey have al ceased 
to lay. Eggs of all the resident swallows may be found, and the 
palm swift has its second brood. The cuckoos, coucals and sirkeers are 
laying. The large grey cuckoo shrike, the fantail, the yellow-eyed babbler, 
the rufous-bellied wren babbler, all other babblers, except the reed babbler, 
the golden oriole, the wren warblers, white-eyed tits, tree pies, mynahs, 
weaver bird, pin-tailed munia, bushlarks, finch larks, stone plover, still 
have eggs; while those of the sarus crane, pheasant-tailed jacana, 
Baillon’s crane, white-necked stork, herons, and egrets of all kinds, 
spoonbills, Ibis’s geese, teal, and snakebirds are found throughout the 
month. The marsh terns also breed in this month, and the great rufous 
wren warbler, striated weaver birds, cinnamon bitterns, and spotted billed 
ducks commence to pair and build. 
In BenGat, the palm swift has its second brood. The broad-billed 
roller is believed to be breeding, but its eggs have not been taken. The 
coucal, tailor-bird, white-breasted kingfisher, common babbler, yellow- 
bellied wren warbler, white-winged green bulbul, chestnut-bellied munia 
and spotted munia, and the bustard quail lay in the neighbourhood of 
Caleutta. The Bengal grass warbler in the eastern districts, the blue- 
breasted quail and florikin in the Terai districts. The bronzed-winged 
jacana, the water cock, Baillon’s crane, the great heron, the black bittern 
and chestnut bittern, the pink-headed duck, and probably most of the 
other resident water birds lay everywhere throughout the month. 
Tn Centrat Innis, the swallows, dusky crag martins, nightjars, 
koels, coucals, cuckoo shrikes, fantails, ground thrushes, wren babblers, 
green bulbuls, robins, rockchats, almost all the wren warblers, titlarks, 
treepies, mynahs, munias, amadavats, crested buntings, bushlarks, crown 
crest larks, painted partridges, bustard, jacanas, rails, herons, egrets, and 
white ibis, are laying still, while Sykes’s warbler, the leeser button quail, 
and the larger whistling teal begin to pair and build. 
In SourHerN Inpia, the orange minivet, the black-naped azure 
flycatcher, the white-spotted fantail, the yellow-eyed babbler, black- 
headed quaker thrush, most of the wren warblers, the white-eyed tit, the 
jungle mynah, and most of the munias, appear to be the principal 
breeders during this month. Towards the end of it Jerdon’s wren warbler, 
the Malabar crested lark, and the rain quail commence to pair and build. 
