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distinct types, one measuring l-3"x "96" and being marked with brown on 

 an olive green background while the other measured 1-25" X 97" and was 

 bluish-green in ground colour. The orderly explained that there were five 

 of the first type and two of the second. I went to see the nest, and as I 

 approached the crow left it. Unfortunately it was built high up on a very 

 slender branch, inaccessible to any but a light and agile climber, and I 

 made no attempt to reach it, but I have no reason whatever to doubt the 

 man's veracity. I sent him up again on the 26th when he reported that 

 all the eggs of the first type had hatched out, but not the remaining one of 

 the second type. 



J. R. JACOB. 



Dhaewak, 

 ISth June 1915. 



[From Mr. Jacob's note, and after seeing two of the eggs, it is evident 

 that two different koels had deposited their eggs in the crow's nest. Four 

 is the largest number of eggs of a koel which have been recorded as 

 found in one nest, but members who have any notes on the number of 

 koel's eggs might send them in for publication — Eds.] 



No. VIII.— NEST OF COMMON SAND-GROUSE. 



The enclosed photographs of the nest of the Common Sand -grouse may 

 be of interest. The nest is nothing but a very small depression in the 

 ground, and was possibly formed by the hoof of a bullock. There is no 

 sort of lining or attempt at construction, the eggs, three in number, being 

 laid on the bare soil. 



It was in the middle of a field of jowari stubble, and I used to pass it 

 on foot or horseback nearly every day, and although knowing to within a 



