Birdfi of tliP Jhehon Dii<trict. 
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August 27. — A pair of Blue Rock Doves (Colnmba intennedia) have 
been haunting my bungalow all the summer and have already 
reared two young ones which were apparently driven away. 
As they took latterlj' to making thi'mselvos a nuisance by 
roosting in the drawing-room 1 removed their second clutch 
of two eggs, which were laid in a bulky nest of grass and 
twigs on the cornice of the verandah . These two eggs 
both measured 88.5 x 27.5 mm. However they started 
building a new nest at once ; this nest, however, would not 
remain on the ledge chosen, wliirh was too narrow, and while 
the cock was striving with it, the hen made a slight nest 
for herself in another part of the verandah, whiili contained 
2 eggs when examined on 11th September. 
August 29. — Examined a nest of the Silvcrbill or White-throated Munia 
(Urolo)icJia malaharica ), which was an egg-shaped structure 
of flowering grasses, with the entrance at one end , placed 
horizontally in a thorn bush. It contained fresh eggs, all 
of which but one were broken up and partly eaten, pos- 
sibly by ants . Two incubated eggs in a nt'st of the Indian 
Ring Dove {Tiirtiir risorius) which was situated only 3 feet 
from the ground in a thorn bush. The Red-headed Bunt- 
ing (Emberiza hilcola) continues very numerous; parties 
may be seen in every direction. A few Black -headed 
Buntings {E . mclanocephala) arc also about. A Xightjar 
seen . 
August 30. — Three Lugger Falcons (Falco jygfjcr) were observed fly- 
ing together to my house in the early morning. 
August 31. — The three Luggers again appeared in the early morning. 
I saw a Pied -crested Cuckoo (C'occysfru jacohmus) 
being mobbed by several Jungle Babblers (Crat.cropiAS cnn- 
oriis) — one of the species on which it is parasitic. 
A male Pied Bush -chat (Pratincola caprata), a f<^male 
Pied Wheatear {Saxicola picia) and anothe'" \^'heatcar 
(perhaps S. ocnanthe) noted. 
Two Green Sandpipers, a White Ibis, and a Nightjar 
seen . 
SUMMARY OP THE MONTH. 
While a certain amount of nesting has been going on the month 
is chiefly remarkable for the fact that the autumn migrations are now 
fully started. Some of our summer visitors have commenced to go and 
their place has been more than tilled by the numbers of passage migrants, 
which form one of the features of the month ; as well as the passage 
migrants but in less numbers have appeared some of the winter visitors. 
Those birds, such as Cotimix coromandelica and Coccystcs 
jacohiiiKS which are ]?aiiis visitors only (for breeding purposes) while 
still being in evidence have certainly decreased greatly in numbers. 
As examples of the passage migrant which has occurred in num- 
bers throughout the month may be cited Pastor roscus, Emberiza 
