123 A BIRD CALENDAR 



party that builds nests in the pleasant winter 

 time. Lastly there are the perennials such 

 birds as the sparrow and the dove, which nest 

 at all seasons. In the present month the last 

 of the summer nesting birds close operations 

 for the year, and the monsoon birds begin to 

 lay their eggs. July is therefore a favour- 

 able month for bird-nesting. Moreover, the 

 sun is sometimes obscured by cloud and, 

 under such conditions, a human being is 

 able to remain out of doors throughout 

 the day without suffering much physical dis- 

 comfort. 



With July ends the normal breeding season 

 of the tree-pies, white-eyes, ioras, king-crows, 

 bank-mynas, paradise flycatchers, brown rock- 

 chats, Indian robins, dhayals, red-winged 

 bush-larks, sunbirds, rollers, swifts, green 

 pigeons, lapwings and butcher-birds. 



The paradise flycatchers leave Northern 

 India and migrate southwards a few 

 weeks after the young birds have left the 

 nest. 



Numbers of bulbuls' nests are likely to be 

 found in July, but the breeding time of these 

 birds is rapidly drawing to its close. Sparrows 

 and doves are of course engaged in parental 



