A Bird Calendar for Northern India

Many of the wire-tailed swallows, minivets and white-browed fantail flycatchers bring up a second brood during the rains. The loud cheerful call of the last is heard very freque...

The nest of the handsome, but noisy, purple coot (_Porphyrio poliocephalus_) is a platform of rushes and reeds which is sometimes placed on the ground in a rice field, but is mo...

The early-sown rice yields the first-fruits of the _kharif_ harvest. By the end of the month it has disappeared before the sickle and many of the fields occupied by it have been...

Among the earliest of the birds to forsake the plains of Hindustan are the grey-lag goose and the pintail duck. These leave Bengal in February, but tarry longer in the cooler pa...

There are two Indian Junes--the June of fiction and the June of fact. The June of fiction is divided into two equal parts--the dry half and the wet half. The former is made up o...

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ ANIMALS OF NO IMPORTANCE THE INDIAN CROW: HIS BOOK BOMBAY DUCKS BIRDS OF THE PLAINS INDIAN BIRDS JUNGLE FOLK GLIMPSES OF INDIAN BIRDS BIRDS OF THE INDIAN HILLS

All these sounds, however, reach in muffled form the ear of a human being shut up in a bungalow; hence it is the voices of the night rather than those of the day with which May...

The _tew_ of the black-headed oriole (_Oriolus melanocephalus_), which is the only note uttered by the bird in the colder months, is occasionally replaced in February by the sum...

Many trees are in flower. The coral, the silk-cotton and the _dhak_ are resplendent with red foliage. The _jhaman_, the _siris_ and the _mohwa_ are likewise in bloom and, ere th...

The average villager is a hot-weather organism. He is content with thin cotton clothing which he wears year in year out, whether the mercury in the thermometer stand at 115 degr...

_Illustrated London News_.--"Mr. Dewar ... has collected a series of essays on bird life which for sprightliness and charm are equal to anything written since that classic 'The...