Writing of Nepal, Dr. Scully remarks:—­“In the valley it lays in May and June; some twenty nests were once examined on the 23rd June, and half the number then contained young birds.”

Major Bingham says:—­“Very common, of course, both at Allahabad and at Delhi, and breeds in June, July, and beginning of August.  At Allahabad it is much persecuted by the Koel (Eudynamys orientalis), every fourth or fifth nest that I found in some topes of mango-trees having one or two of the Koel’s eggs.”

Colonel Butler informs me that in Karachi it “begins to lay in the mangrove bushes in the harbour as early as the end of May;” and that it “breeds in the neighbourhood of Deesa in June, July, and August, commencing to build in the last week of May.”

Later, he writes:—­“Belgaum, 15th May, 1879.  Found numerous nests in the native infantry lines in low trees, containing fresh and incubated eggs and young birds of all sizes.  In the same locality, on the 30th March, 1880, I found a nest containing four young birds able to fly; the eggs must therefore have been laid quite as early as the middle of February, if not earlier.”

Mr. G.W.  Vidal writes:—­“The Common Crow appears to have two broods in the year in our district (Ratnagiri), the first in April and May, and the second in November and December.  In these four months I have found nests, eggs, and young birds in several different places in the district, and as yet at no other times.  It is extremely improbable that there should be one breeding-season lasting from April to December, and I think I may State with certainty that the Crows do not breed at Ratnagiri during the months of heaviest rainfall, viz.  July, August, and September.  As their breeding in November and December appears to be exceptional, I subjoin a record of the few nests I examined.

  “Nov. 22, 1878.  Ratnagiri: 
   One nest with 3 young birds.
    " " 1 fresh egg.

  “Nov. 23, 1878.  Ratnagiri: 
   One nest with 1 fresh egg.
    " " 1 fresh egg.

“Dec. 4, 1878.  Saugmeshwar.—­One nest with 3 eggs hard-set; another nest probably containing young birds, but the Crows pecked so viciously at the man who was climbing the tree, that he got frightened and came down again without reaching the nest.  Crows with sticks and feathers in their mouths are flying about all day.

“Dec. 5, 1878.  Aroli.—­Found a nest with a Crow sitting in it; no one to climb the tree.”

Mr. Benjamin Aitken has favoured me with the following interesting note:—­“I send you an account of a nest of the Common Crow, found in October, 1874, in the town of Madras.  My attention was first directed to the remarkable pair of Crows to which the nest belonged, in the end of July, when they were determinedly and industriously attempting to fix a nest on the top ledge of a pillar in the verandah of the ’Madras Mail’ office.  The ledge was so narrow that one would have thought