ROUGH LIS! UF THE BIRDS OF WESTERN KHANDESH. 3813 
in January. The nests are very well concealed, but the habit 
of the cock, of continually carrying straws to the nest while 
the hen is sitting, makes it easy to find the nests. 
? 705.—Estrelda formosa, Lath. The Green Wax- 
bill. 
I found considerable flocks of what I have no doubt was 
this bird, in the end of April, in the jungle along the, Tapti 
in the extreme west of Taloda, and another small flock in 
May west of Nandurbar. On the first occasion I was following 
a wounded black buck and had only a rifle with me; and on 
the second I was riding with no one with me. As I have never 
actually shot the bird in Khandesh I enter it as doubtful. 
706.—Passer domesticus,* Zin. The Sparrow. 
Permanent resident ; common everywhere. 
711.—Gymnoris flavicollis,* Frankl. The Yellow- 
throated Sparrow. 
Permanent resident. It is the commonest bird‘in the Sat- 
puras, breeding in the hot weather. Out of at least a dozen 
nests of which I have. notes, in only one case was there more 
than two eggs. It is found also through all the jungle districts. 
716.—Emberiza buchanani,* Blyth. The Grey- 
necked Bunting. 
Cold weather visitant. Very common everywhere except 
in the thick jungles. . 
721.—Euspiza melanocephala,* Scop, The Black- 
headed Corn Bunting. _ 
Cold weather visitant. Very common in the fields all through 
the district. 
? 722.—Euspiza luteola, Spurrm. The Red-headed 
Corn Bunting. 
I believe I have seen this species in the cold weather, but I 
have never got any specimens. 
724.—Melophus melanicterus,* Gm. The Crested 
Black Bunting. . 
Permanent resident. In the cold weather common all along 
the sauall rivers, and in the hot weather through the Satpuras 
and other jungles. Breeds in the rains, several pairs breeding 
at Laling seven miles from Dhulia. 
