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cotton and fibre and similar materials. The sewing was either 

 a genuine in and out stitch used to draw edges of leaves 

 together, or else the mere pushing of rough knots through 

 punctured holes in the leaf. 



The second type of nest was less common and consisted of an 

 oval domed structure of various shapes and sizes with the 

 entrance on one side. This was built in bushes and occasionally 

 steadied by the sewing of a leaf or two to the outside. 



All eggs found were of the ordinary mahogany red type ; 

 seventeen measured give the following results : 

 Length 14' 5 mm. to 17 mm. 

 Breadth ll'S mm. to 12-5 mm. 

 Average 16 x 12-2 mm. 



Daring the second half of September and the beginning of 

 October the species seemed to become much scarcer, but I was not 

 long enough in the district to ascertain whether this disappear- 

 ance was real owing to migration or only apparent and due to the 

 ending of the breeding season and I prefer the latter alternative. 



466. The Indian Wren-Warbler — Prinia inornata, Sykes. 



Resident and common. This Wren-warbler is par excellence 

 a bird of the crops and cultivation ; for instance, of the birds 

 found in the standing corn in April and May, it was by far the 

 most numerous, while on one evening in August (at Sangla) I 

 found ten of its nests in various stages in patches of growing 

 sugarcane ; but all were empty. 



The only eggs found were a rather incubated clutch of four 

 taken on 17th July from a nest of the usual type (a domed oval 

 of finely laced shreds of green grass, with a slight lining of 

 horsehairs) built in the top shoots of a roadside " Sanatta " 

 hedge. In the gardens of Civil Lines it was much less 

 common than Prinia socialis, which was on the other hand less 

 common in the fields. 



469. The Indian Grey-shrike — Lanius lahtora, Sykes. 



The Grey-shrike is both common and resident throughout the 

 district. 



473. The Bay-backed Shrike — Lanius vittatus, Val. 



Here as in other districts of the Northern Punjab, the Bay- 

 backed Shrike is doubtless very largely migratory, although I 

 was not long enough in the district to mark its exact status. 

 On my arrival towards the end of March the species was com- 

 mon, and I found many nests in March and April ; a clutch of 

 three slightly incubated eggs was found on July 2.3rd. During 

 August birds in the immature plumage were common, and about 

 the middle of September the number of Shrikes was apparently 

 increased by birds from further North migrating Southwards. 

 These birds had gone again by the second week in October. 

 During my visit in the last week of December 1913, only a 

 single individual was observed. 



476. The Rufous-backed Shrike— iawms erythronotus (Vig.). 



Solitary individuals of this Shrike were noted on the 29th of 

 March, 27th of April, and 4th of May in Gujranwala, and on 

 May 12th at Kamoke. 



