The paradise flycatchers leave Northern India and migrate southwards a few weeks after the young birds have left the nest.

Numbers of bulbuls’ nests are likely to be found in July, but the breeding time of these birds is rapidly drawing to its close.  Sparrows and doves are of course engaged in parental duties; their eggs have been taken in every month of the year.

The nesting season is now at its height for the white-necked storks, the koels and their dupes—­the house-crows, also for the various babblers and their deceivers—­the brain-fever birds and the pied crested cuckoos.  The tailor-birds, the ashy and the Indian wren-warblers, the brahminy mynas, the wire-tailed swallows, the amadavats, the sirkeer cuckoos, the pea-fowl, the water-hens, the common and the pied mynas, the cuckoo-shrikes and the orioles are all fully occupied with nursery duties.  The earliest of the brain-fever birds to be hatched have left the nest.  Like all its family the young hawk-cuckoo has a healthy appetite.  In order to satisfy it the unfortunate foster-parents have to work like slaves, and often must they wonder why nature has given them so voracious a child.  When it sees a babbler approaching with food, the cuckoo cries out and flaps its wings vigorously.  Sometimes these completely envelop the parent bird while it is thrusting food into the yellow mouth of the cuckoo.  The breast of the newly-fledged brain-fever bird is covered with dark brown drops, so that, when seen from below, it looks like a thrush with yellow legs.  Its cries, however, are not at all thrushlike.

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 frequently in July.

Numbers of young bee-eaters are to be seen hawking at insects; they are distinguishable from adults by the dullness of the plumage and the fact that the median tail feathers are not prolonged as bristles.

Very few crows emerge from the egg before the 1st of July, but, during the last week in June, numbers of baby koels are hatched out.  The period of incubation for the koel’s egg is shorter than that of the crow, hence at the outset the baby koel steals a march on his foster-brothers.  Koel nestlings, when they first emerge from the egg, differ greatly in appearance from baby crows.  The skin of the koel is black, that of crow is pink for the first two days of its existence, but it grows darker rapidly.  The baby crow is the bigger bird and has a larger mouth with fleshy sides.  The sides of the mouth of the young koel are not fleshy.  The neck of the crow nestling is long and the head hangs down, whereas the koel’s neck is short and the bird carries its head huddled in its shoulders.  Crows nest high up in trees, these facts are therefore best observed by sending up an expert climber with a tin half-full of sawdust to which a long string is attached.