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twigs at the ends of the lower boughs, some 10 or 12 feet 

 from the oronnd, and in consequence hard to reach. The 

 bush-nests arc phiced some 4 to 8 feet from the ground, often 

 in very small bushes, but are ])rotected by the fact that the 

 grazing of goats and camels on the softer twigs have made 

 the bush<^s very deiiso and thorny. Isolated nests an' 

 occasionally found ; but, as a rule, the species breeds in loosely 

 connected colonies at some lush and shady spot, where the 

 necessary Kikurs are growing, often with other trees, over 

 or close to water, whether in the form of ponds, patches of 

 marsh, or channels. 



Of the number of nests that 1 examined the majority were 

 empty or contained hatching eggs or young. Spirit speci- 

 mens of young were preserved. Six eggs successfully blown 

 measure: 18 x 13"'), ISxlP)';'), IT'SxliVT), 17'5xlomm. 

 (0/4) ; and 18 x 13-5, 18 x 14 mm. (c/2). Four appears to 

 be the normal clutch, but in one nest T found two eggs 

 aboiit to hntch, 



Emberiza calandra calandra L. (2 skins.) 



I have already recorded (Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. xxv. 

 p. 742) the obtaining of the first authenticated specimen 

 in India of the Corn-Bunting from a flock at Massan on 

 20 November, 1917. Tliree birds were found by Ticehurst 

 in the same neighbourhood on 22 December. This was after 

 the unusally heavy monsoon of that autumn, and I did not 

 meet with the species again. 



Ticehurst failed to meet Avith it in Sind, and there are 

 no records for India, with the exception of Murray's original 

 record, which has since been discredited. The species is not 

 likely, therefore, to he a regular visitor, even to the north- 

 west of India. 



Emberiza leucocephala S.(x. Gmel. (1 skin.) 



A male was shot at Kariwala on 15 February, 1918. It 



was in a Kikur-tree with some other Buntings not definitely 



identified. 



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