150 JULY. 



In the Noeth-West Provinces, the birds of prey have al Iceased 

 to lay. Eggs of all the resident swallows may be found, and the 

 palm swift has its second brood. The cuckoos, coucals and sirkeers are 

 laying. The large grey cuckoo shrike, the fantail, the yellow-eyed babbler, 

 the rufous -bellied wren babbler, all other babblers, except the reed babbler, 

 the golden oriole, the wren warblers, white-eyed tits, tree pies, mynahs, 

 weaver bird, pin-tailed munia, bushlarks, finch larks, stone plover, still 

 have eggs ; while those of the sarus crane, pheasant-tailed jacana^ 

 Baillon's crane, white-necked stork, herons, and egrets of all kinds, 

 spoonbills, Ibis's geese, teal, and snakebirds are found throughout the 

 month. The marsh terns also hreed in this month, and the great rufous 

 ioren warbler, striated weaver birds, cinnamon bitterns, and spotted billed 

 ducks commence to pair and build. 



In Bengal, the palm swift has its second brood. The broad-billed 

 roller is believed to be breeding, but its eggs have not been taken. The 

 coucal, tailor-bird, white-breasted kingfisher, common babbler, yellow- 

 bellied wren warbler, white-winged green bulbul, chestnut-bellied munia 

 and spotted munia, and the bustard quail lay in the neighbourhood of 

 Calcutta. The Bengal grass warbler in the eastern districts, the blue- 

 breasted quail and florikin in the Terai districts. The bronzed-winged 

 jacana, the water cock, Baillon's crane, the great heron, the black bittern 

 and chestnut bittern, the pink-headed duck, and probably most of the 

 other resident water birds lay every where throughout the month. 



In Central India, the swallows, dusky crag martins, nightjars, 

 koels, coucals, cuckoo shrikes, fantails, ground thrushes, wren babblers, 

 green bulbuls, robins, rockchats, almost all the wren warblers, titlarks, 

 treepies, mynahs, munias, amadavats, crested buntings, bushlarks, crown 

 crest larks, painted partridges, bustard, jacanas, rails, herons, egrets, and 

 white ibis, are laying still, while Sykes's warbler, the lesser button quail, 

 and the larger whistling teal begin to pair and build. 



In Southern India, the orange minivet, the black-naped azure 

 flycatcher, the white-spotted fantail, the yellow-eyed babbler, black- 

 headed quaker thrush, most of the wren warblers, the white-eyed tit, the 

 jungle mynah, and most of the munias, appear to be the principal 

 breeders during this month. Towards the end of it Jerdon's wren warbler, 

 the Malabar crested lark, and the rain quail commence to pair and build. 



