558 Mr. W. Jesse on the 
The eggs^ usually three in number, are brown ish or greenish 
white,, but so densely marked with dark brown as to be in 
many instances almost black. 
Average of 6 Lucknow eggs "73" X "oo" 
Measurement of largest e^^ '71" x'^o' 
„ smallest e^^ -TO" X '54" s 
No. 776. Passer domesticus. House-Sparrow. 
Gonriya [H.]. 
As common and as great a nuisance as he is in any other 
part of the world blessed with his presence. A pair made 
a nest on a bracket in my drawing-room. When it contained 
two eggs my bearer removed it bodily and brought it to me. 
Some hours afterwards, noticing that the eggs were well 
marked, I put the structure back again. The Sparrows 
returned and laid three more eggs. I felt I ought to have 
let them be hatched, but five young birds in a drawing-room 
was too much of a good thing, so I confiscated the eggs and 
banished the pair. These five eggs formed an exceedingly 
pretty clutch and averaged "80" X *59". 
No. 795. Embekiza BucHANANi. Grey -necked Bunting. 
The Grey-necked Bunting is a common cold-weather 
visitant, occurring in large flocks. Reid remarked : '^ Though 
it resembles the Ortolan of Europe, and was for a long time 
considered identical, it rarely, if ever, finds it way to the 
table, in Lucknow at any rate, where thousands of Social 
and other Larks, if not Sparrows, are annually passed off as 
genuine Ortolans ! '^ 
No. 800. Emberiza ltjteola. E,ed-headed Bunting. 
Gaudam [H.]. 
A common cold -weather visitant. It avoids well- wooded 
tracts, and, according to Beid, is especially fond of dhak- 
jungle bordering on cultivation. It also aff'ects thatching- 
grass when it is seeding. 
No. 803. Melophus melanicterus. Crested Bunting. 
Kulchira [H. Lucknow, teste Reid]. 
The Crested Bunting is not, according to my experience. 
