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on one of the bamboo butties and between it and the thatch ; as the house is low 
roofed and the eaves come well over, the nest is exceedingly well concealed 
and but for the bird flying out on several occasions when I passed the house I 
should never have noticed it. 
Baghownie Laheria Sakai, CHAS. M. INGLIS, 
N. Bihar, f.z.s., re.s., m.b.o.u. 
1th August 1922. 
No. XXII.— CURIOUS NESTING SITE CHOSEN BY THE PURPLE 
HONEY SUCKER (ARACHNETHRA ASIATICA). 
I send you a photograph shewing a peculiar nesting site chosen by the 
Common Purple Honey Sucker. As you will see from the photo the nest is 
attached to the wire carrying the current and is within a few inches of the lamp 
itself. The lamp is suspended by a bracket placed at the entrance of the Officers’ 
Club, Ajmer, and is ahght from sun down till past 9 p.m. eveiy night. 
Eggs were actually laid in the nest and would probably have incubated in the 
usual course but some well meaning member thinking the nest required 
strengthening tied the upper jwrtion to the wire with string. 
This was apparently too much for the parent birds who deserted. 
Ajmer, W. E. SHIPP. 
17 th June 1922. 
