44 THE BIRDS OF THE LUCKNOW CIVIL DIVISION. 
494.—Cercomela fusca, Bly. Native name—Dauma. 
The Brown Rock Chat is fairly common about Lucknow, but 
I have not seen it elsewhere. It frequents the numerous old 
buildings and walls in the City Suburbs. A nest which I took 
from an old mosque on the 24th May contained three fresh 
eggs of an uniform pale blue color, marked with tiny spots of 
different shades of brownish red, chiefly towards the larger 
end where the spots formed an irregular dotted zone. Of five 
egos in my possession the average measurement is 0°80 by 
0:62 inches. 
497.—Ruticilla rufiventris, Vici]. Native name— 
Lalgonda. 
The Indian Redstart—a cold weather visitor—makes its 
first appearance about the end of September, stragglers remain- 
ing as late as May. It is very common, frequenting gardens, 
mangoe and guava groves, and not unfrequently out-houses, 
walls and old buildings. It feeds on insects, usually capturing 
them on the ground. 
514.—Cyanecula suecica, Lin. 
The Red-spot Blue-throat is very common in the cold weather. 
It habitually freqaents damp places, such as patches of long 
grass, sugarcane, pea fields, &c., in the vicinity of rivers and 
jhils, and is common in the tamarisk jungles about Byramghat. 
It feeds on insects. 
518 dis.—Lusciniola melanopogon, Tem. 
The Moustached Sedge Warbler is fairly common in all suitable 
localities, but only, I think, during the cold weather. In the 
low-lying grass-covered lands here and there on the banks of the 
Goomti, in the grass and tamarisk jungle iu the semi-swamps 
about Byramghat, and in similar localities on the khadir lands 
of the Oudh bank of the Ganges, it is not uncommon, while 
a few may sometimes be found in the rushy swamps and nooks 
on such rivers as the Goomti and Saie. From its skulking 
habits, it is difficult to get a fair shot at it unless at very close 
quarters, when it generally gets mangled almost past recogni- 
tion. 
520.—Locustella hendersoni, Cass. 
The Eastern Grasshopper Warbler—probably only a cold 
weather visitor—frequents the same localities as the last, the 
two being often found together, but it is decidedly a greater 
skulk and numerically less common. The only specimen I 
have, I captured alive after a good deal of trouble in 
