. Birds' nesting in India. A calendar of the breeding seasons, and a popular guide to the habits and haunts of birds. Illustrated . ush, red-headed wrenbabbler, rufous-necked and rusty-cheeked scimitar babblers, blackgorgetted laughing thrush, iron grey bushchat, blue-headed redstart,black-eared and grey-headed warblers, western spotted forktails, yellow-cheeked tits, blue magpies, green jays, and spotted-winged stares areall pairing and building. In the Punjab, the vultures, hawks, falcons, and true eagles arestill laying, also the short-toed eagle. The buzzards and several owlscommence layin
. Birds' nesting in India. A calendar of the breeding seasons, and a popular guide to the habits and haunts of birds. Illustrated . ush, red-headed wrenbabbler, rufous-necked and rusty-cheeked scimitar babblers, blackgorgetted laughing thrush, iron grey bushchat, blue-headed redstart,black-eared and grey-headed warblers, western spotted forktails, yellow-cheeked tits, blue magpies, green jays, and spotted-winged stares areall pairing and building. In the Punjab, the vultures, hawks, falcons, and true eagles arestill laying, also the short-toed eagle. The buzzards and several owlscommence laying. The dusky crag martin, the pied kinfffisher, theorey shrike, the babblers, the streaked scrub warbler, the streakedwren warbler, the raven, the larks, doves, the common sandgrouse,the common quail, the big bustard, most of the plovers, the commonheron, the king curlew, most of the terns, and the scissor bill haveeggs during the month; and the painted sandgrouse, the seeseepartridge, the lesser button quail, and the gull-billed terns arepairing and making their nests. In the North-West PiiovmcEs, the white scavenger vulture. f^f ^ ^ Ji yp -•w. \RSHALL OtL NEST OF THE RED-HEADED TIT (l^UhoKscUS erythroc^hcdusj MARCH. 11 and a few of the king vultures are the only vultures with eg-gs atthis season. The lagg-ar falcon, the red-headed merlins, the changeablehawk eagles, buzzards, kites, and most of the owls, are still the swallows and martins, the blue-tailed bee eater, the roller,the parrots, woodpeckers and barbets, the flower-peckers, honeysuckers, nuthatches, robins, chats, titlarks, carrion crows, larksof all kinds, green pigeons, emerald doves, grey partridges, bushquail, common quail, most of the plovers, the river terns, and thescissor bills haye all got eggs. The following birds not included inthe list that follows begin building during the month, and should bewatched:—The shikra hawk, the jungle owlet, the blue-r^iffed bee eater,the northern grey hornbill
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