56 A BIRD CALENDAR 



one brood that year, and that the birds in 

 question had nested in his verandah for some 

 years. There is no doubt that some wire- 

 tailed swallows bring up two broods. Such 

 would seem to breed, as Hume says, in 

 February and March and again in July and 

 August. But, as many nests containing eggs 

 are found in May, some individuals appear to 

 have one brood only, which hatches out in 

 May or June. 



Those useful but ugly fowls, the white 

 scavenger vultures (Neophron ginginianus), 

 depart from the ways of their brethren in 

 that they nidificate in March and April in- 

 stead of in January and February. The nest is 

 an evil-smelling pile of sticks, rags and rubbish. 

 It is placed on some building or in a tree. 



The handsome brahminy kites (Haliastur 

 indicus), attired in chestnut and white, are 

 now busily occupied, either in seeking for sites 

 or in actually building their nests, which 

 resemble those of the common kite. 



In the open plains the pipits (Anthus rufulus) 

 and the crested larks (Galerita cristata) are 

 keeping the nesting finch-larks company. 



All three species build the same kind of nest 

 a cup of grass or fibres (often a deep cup in 



