APRIL, 



Breeding has by this time become more general everywliere. Tlie 

 kites and buzzards, the shrikes, tit larks^ sparrows, doves, the common 

 sandgrouse, jungle fowl, spur fowl, plovers, and river terns have eggs 

 in all parts of the country. The common heron has eggs here and there 

 in northern, western, and central India. 



In the Himalayas, most of the hawks, hawk eagles, serpent eagles, 

 the barefoot scops owl, the owlets, martins, large Bengal nightjars, 

 trogons, most of the woodpeckers and piculets, all the barbets, (except 

 the Marshall's harbet,) honey-suckers, treecreeper, nuthatches, hoopoe, 

 cuckoo shrike, large minivet, some of the drongos, swallow shrikes, 

 most of the flycatchers, shortwings, thrushes, ouzels, a few laughing 

 thrushes, bushchats, most of the tree warblers, all the pipits, most of 

 the true tits, crows, jackdaws, jays, the spotted winged stare, crested 

 bunting, white-crested kalij pheasant, the ehukor, and the night 

 heron have eggs throughout the month, while the sparrow hawk, 

 wood owl, the rest of the scops owls, the Sikkim frogmoutli, Unwinds 

 nightjar, the European bee eater, black cap shrike, pied shrike, short- 

 billed minivet, drongos, yellow-bellied fantail, red-breasts, ground 

 thrushes, blackbirds, black-headed wren warbler, most of the laughing 

 thrushes, a few bulbuls, the redstarts, most of the remaining warblers, 

 the forUails, wagtails and pipits, nearly all the hill tits, the rufous- 

 breasted accentor, the corbg, the yellow-billed Hue magpie, the grey- 

 headed mynah, the sparrows, meadow bunting, skylark, imperial 

 pigeons, turtle doves, all the rest of the pheasants, the snow partridge, 

 bustard quail, woodcock, sandpipers, water hens, geese, ducks, and 

 grebe are pairing and commence building their nests towards the end of 

 the month. 



In the Punjab, the king vulture, the white scavenger vulture, 

 the red-headed merlin, and Indian tawny eagle are still laying. The 

 screech owl and scops owl, and little owlet have eggs, so also have the 

 striated reed babblers, the rock chats, scrub warblers, treepies, the 

 bright starlings, singing bush larks, sandlarks, crested larks, green 

 pigeons, the seesee partridges, the common quail, button quail, big 

 bustard; plovers, king curlew, and river terns, as well as many other 



