THE BIRDS OF THE LUCKNOW CIVIL DIVISION. 43 
Average measurement of 12 eggs... 79 by °56 inches. 
Measurement of largest egg re OO tage CULT tas 
Measurement of smallest ege BNE: SE as 1 ge 
One of the above nests, which I found in a wall of the 
Secunder Bagh ruins, was entirely composed of human hair! 
Another, which I robbed on three occasions, each time leaving 
the nest, had soon afterwards a fourth set. This time I allowed 
the eggs to remain, and had the satisfaction of knowing that the 
old lady managed to rear her brood. 
Possibly Iam, and was, wrong in supposing her to have laid 
the four clutches; but though I watched closely, I was con- 
vinced at the time that it was the same pair that kept about 
the nest. 
481.—Pratincola caprata, Zin. Native name—Kala- 
pidha. 
The White-winged Black Robin is common in thin dhak and 
tamarisk jungles, and scrub-covered, undulating and raviny 
ground; but does not, habitually at least, frequent gardens 
and well-wooded tracts. It feeds on insects which it usually 
captures on the ground, darting down on them from some low 
perch. It is a permanent resident. 
483.—Pratincola maurus, Pall. 
The Indian Bush Chat, which is very common during the cold 
weather, frequents the same localities as the last species, and 
its habits are much the same. It usually makes its appearance 
about the beginning of October and leaves early in April; 
is in general a very wary bird, keeping well out of range of 
danger, and flying from bush to bush as one approaches, taking 
at last to thickets if persistently pursued. 
491.—Saxicola isabellinus, Riipp. 
Menetries’ Wheat-ear is found only in the cold weather, and 
is not common, being rather locally distributed, as it 
frequents, generally, rugged and barren tracts and the more 
open parts of dhak and scrub jungle. I know nothing parti- 
cular in regard to its habits. 
492.—Saxicola deserti, Riipp. 
The Black-throated Wheat-ear is similarly only a cold weather 
visitor and far from common. It frequents much the same loca- 
lities as the last species. On one occasion I found some five or 
six frequenting block kunker quarries, particularly the material 
lying exposed and scattered about, on the barren margin of a 
jhil at Ajgaen. 
