JOURNAL 
OF THH 
BOMBAY 
Aatural History Society 
Wo. 4.] BOMBAY, DECEMBER, 1888.  [Vol. Ill. 
NESTING IN WESTERN INDIA. 
By List. H. E. Barnus. 
Works on Indian Oology are very few, and many years have 
elapsed since the last was written. Colonel Marshall’s book, 
« Birds Nesting in India,’ was published in 1877, and although 
most invaluable to collectors; does not describe. fully. either nests 
or eggs, and contains but few references to this side of India. 
Mr. Hume’s splendid work, “Nests and Hggs of Indian Birds,” 
was published in 1873, and has long been outof print. It describes 
in the most careful manner, both nests and eggs, of all birds 
known to breed in India at that time, and gives the fullest inform- 
ation regarding both localities. and dates, but here again the 
references to Western India are few and incomplete. I believe 
that at one time Mr. Hume contemplated publishing a new and 
revised edition; indeed, Colonel Marshall in the preface to his work 
mentions having been allowed to take extracts from the mant- 
scripts, which must at that time have been in an advanced stage. 
ng now presented his collection to the British 
being fully taken up with another and per- 
Mr. Hume havi 
Museuin, and his time 
haps more important subject, renders it extremely unlikely that 
this work will ever be published; this is to be the more regretted 
as it would have contained much matter especially interesting to 
Western Indian ornithologists. A great deal of information is 
contained in the Bombay Gazetteer, and many valuable notes are to 
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