108 A BIRD CALENDAR 



have eggs or young : white-eyes, ioras, tailor- 

 birds, king-crows, robins, sparrows, tree-pies, 

 seven sisters, cuckoo-shrikes, Indian wren- 

 warblers (second brood), sunbirds (second 

 brood), swifts, fantail flycatchers (second 

 brood), orioles, paradise flycatchers, grey horn- 

 bills, and the various mynas, bulbuls, butcher- 

 birds, doves, pigeons and lapwings. The 

 following species have young which either 

 are in the nest or have only recently left it : 

 roller, hoopoe, brown rock-chat, magpie-robin, 

 coppersmith, green barbet, nightjar, white- 

 eyed buzzard, pipit, wire-tailed swallow, white- 

 breasted kingfisher, grey partridge, kite, golden- 

 backed woodpecker (second brood), and the 

 several species of bee-eater and lark. 



With June the breeding season for the blue 

 rock and green pigeons ends. In the sal forests 

 the young jungle-fowl have now mostly hatched 

 out and are following the old hens, or feeding 

 independently. 



Some of the minivets are beginning to busy 

 themselves with a second brood. 



The breeding operations of a few species 

 begin in June. 



Chief of these is that arch-villain Corvus 

 splendens the Indian house-crow. Crows have 



