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roost, and, flying out, may sometimes be seen seated on the tops of bushes ; but otherwise, after their return 

 at daybreak from their night's work, they never stir till near sunset. 



Nidification. — Mr. Doig has recently found the Black Bittern breeding on the Eastern Narra in Sindh. 

 The nests were placed in thickets, generally " about 5 feet over the water, either in a dense tamarisk-bush or 

 thick clump of reeds, and are about 9 inches in diameter and 3 inches in thickness, having a slight depression, 

 in which the eggs, always four in number, are laid." These are described as being " broad ovals, sharp at 

 both ends, and very nearly white in colour, but with faint suspicion of a delicate pale sea-green colour.'" They 

 vary in length from T5 to T85 inch, and in breadth from 1*15 to T3. 



