JULY. 



THIS 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 HIMALAYAS, 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 PUNJAB, 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 black-winged 

 kites, the large button quail, and Biyth's water hen (very rare) are begin- 

 ning to pa 1 !' and build. 



