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small waders. Next day near Haumangark saw 2,000 Teal, shot

fifty Common Snipe and some Jack Snipe, many Houbaras, Black

Buck, and Nilghai. 7th December saw between 5,000 and 6,000

Black Buck, not more than 200 yards away from our motor cars.

This was a most wonderful sight and one that we shall never forget.

A lot of Sandgrouse—Spotted, Imperial, Common, and Pintailed—

sixty-four Houbara Bustard, Imperial Eagles attacking Houbara

Bustard. The following birds are conspicuous in Bikaner : Pied

Chat (winter visitor), White-headed Chat (winter visitor), Indian

Grey Shrike, Bay-backed Shrikes. Saw 4,000 Demoiselle Cranes.


9th December, on the way to Jaipore. A large salt lake with

a lot of Flamingos and Pelicans. In the guest house garden,

Sunbirds, Zosterops, Hoopoes, Brown-backed Bobins, Coppersmith

Barbets. There was a very good 300 at Jaipore.


11th December on the way to Kotah lots of Drawf Turtle

Doves and Painted Storks (Tantalus), Bulbuls, Francolins,

Barbets, Treepies, Blue-throat, Fantailed Flycatchers, and

Ruddy Sheldrake on the river, also Black Storks. On a visit to

Mr. Dodd’s shooting camp, near Calcutta, we saw Cotton Teal,

Owlets, Serpent Eagles, and other birds of prey, Kingfishers,

Zosterops, Jacanas, Orange-headed Ground Thrushes, Coursers, and

Snipe. India undoubtedly is the most wonderful country for birds

and beasts, and the thing that strikes one most is the tameness

of the birds.



NESTING NOTES FROM FOXWARREN PARK


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By Alfred Ezra, O.B.E.


As some readers of our Magazine are interested in the nesting

of birds, I herewith give a few notes on the nesting of my birds

in 1933:—


Rothschild’s Grackle (Leucopsar rothschildi) . These birds

were most disappointing last year. They did nothing but build

nests and destroy them; laid one egg which was promptly



