108 MAY. 



plover, the stilt, the king curlew, and the gull-billed tern are all 

 laying : while the white-necked storks are pairing and building. 



In the NORTH- WEST PROVINCES the true eagles, buzzards, kites, 

 screech owl, scops owl, jungle owlet, wire-tailed swallow, goat- 

 suckers, rollers, white-breasted and .little kingfishers, hornbills, koel, 

 concal, sirkeer, purple honey sucker, fantails, babblers, bulbuls, 

 orioles, robins, pied wagtails, treepies, mynahs, sparrows, bush larks, 

 finch larks, skylarks, green pigeons, rock pigeons, sandgrouse, 

 jungle fowl, partridges, plovers, and common cormorants have eggs ; and 

 Stewart's wren warblers, the Bengal bush larks, white-necked storks, shell 

 ibis, and white ibis are pairing and building. 



In BENGAL, the spotted eagle, the crested swift, the white- 

 breasted and stork-billed and little kingfishers, the amethyst- 

 rumped honey suckers, king crows, the yellow-breasted and red-capped 

 wren babblers, the striated marsh babblers, red-whiskered bulbuls, 

 the black-headed oriole, the shama, titlark, sparrows, and many other 

 kinds are laying. The lesser concal, the Bengal bushlark, the florikin, 

 the yellow bittern, and the pink-beaded duck are commencing to pair 

 and build. 



In CENTRAL INDIA, the shikra, the lesser harrier eagle, the white- 

 eyed buzzard, the Nilgiri nightjar, the blue-tailed bee eater, the blue 

 redbreasts, the striated marsh babblers, the white-eared crested 

 bulbuls, the brown-backed robins, the brown rock chats, pied wag- 

 tails, green amadavats, the sand larks, the painted sandgrouse and 

 the common sandgrouse, the grey jungle fowl, the spur fowl, courier 

 plovers, wattled plovers, the brown rails, purple herons, and some 

 others have got eggs. The white ibis are pairing and building towards 

 the end of the month. 



In SOUTHERN INDIA, the house and mosque swallows are laying. 

 Also the crag martins, swiftlets, ghat nightjars, small green barbets, 

 crimson-breasted barbets, long-tailed drongos, white-spotted fantails, 

 grey-headed and black and orange flycatchers, blue redbreasts, short 

 \viugs, blackbirds, Nilgiri quaker thrushes, scimitar babblers, laugh- 

 ing thrushes, babblers, black bulbuls, yellow-browed bush bulbuls, 

 bushchats, the fuscous and ashy wren warblers, the Nilgiri pipit 

 and Nilgiri tit lark, the white-eyed tit, the grey tit, the black crows, 

 the common crows, the hill mynah, the weaver bird, the spotted 

 munia and Indian amadavat, the skylark, the grey jungle fowl^ 

 the red spur fowl, and the little grebe have all got eggs during the 

 month. Towards the end of it, the orange minivets, black-headed 



