Journ. BomBay Nat. Hist. Soc. PLATE II. 
Photo Capt. W. Edgar Evans, 1918. 
A.—Close to Amara, on Tigris. 
‘« Borrow-pits ’ where earth for brick making, &c., is dug; old and new kilns in distance. 
Some of the faces where the Bee-eaters and Pied King-fishers nested in 1918 are seen to 
right and in distance. Average height 6 to 7 feet. All the surrounding land is a mass of 
the borrow-pits. 
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Photo Capt. C. R. Pitman. 
E —Broken country on Tigris down stream of Samarra where the Ruddy Sheldrake is 
found breeding in holes in the ground, mounds and cliffs during April and May. 
Brrps oF MEsoporamtia. 
