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birds which have been found breeding- in the North-West Provinces and 

 central India. The Egyptian bee eaters and desert finch larks com- 

 mence nest building- towards the end of the month. 



In the NORTH-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, Sjkes'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, also a few pairs of the concal 

 and sirkeer build in the eastern parts. 



In BENGAL, 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 eggs 

 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 CENTRAL INDIA, 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 larks, painted sand- 

 grouse, jungle fowl, spur fowl, plovers, purple herons, as well as the 

 common herons, are sitting. The lesser harrier eagle, TickeWs blue 

 redbreast) the striated marsh babbler, the green amadavat, and the 

 brown rail begin to build towards the end of the month. 



In SOUTHERN INDIA, 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, 

 TiekelFs 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, treepies, 



