Vol. 4 No. 3

The birds of Sambhar Lake and its environsHarkirat Singh Sangha

Breeding biology of Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher  Ceyx erythaca
Sachin Balkrishna Palkar, Vishwas Dattatrya Katdare, Rohan Janardhan Lovalekar, Ram Vasudev Mone & Vishwas Vishnu Joshi

Breeding biology of White-breasted Kingfisher  Halcyon smyrnensis
Sachin Balkrishna Palkar, Rohan Janardhan Lovalekar & Vishwas Vishnu Joshi

Egg laying, egg parameters and clutch size in Mallard  Anas platyrhynchos
G. Mustafa Shah, Ulfat Jan, Fayaz Ahmad Ahanger, Bilal A. Bhat & M. F. Fazili

Short Notes

A record of the Brown Skua  Catharacta antarctica  from Thiruvananthapuram coast, Kerala
Suresh Elamon & E. Kunhikrishnan

Some behavioural observations of wintering Lesser  Charadrius mongolus  and Greater  C. leschenaultii  Sand Plovers in Goa, India
Rainer  Mönke & Klaus-Jürgen Seelig

First record of Masked Booby  Sula dactylatra  from Kachchh, India
Sandeep Munjpara, Arjun Potter, Parimal Solanki & Jyoti Tak

A vulture population survey in Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, India
Raju Lal Gurjar

A large congregation of Northern House-Martins  Delichon urbica  near Pune, India
V. Santharam

Breeding notes on the Rufous-bellied Babbler  Dumetia hyperythra
Raju Vyas

Jungle Myna  Acridotheres fuscus  usurping the nest hole of Grey-headed Starling  Sturnus malabaricus
Naba Krishna Nath

Olive-backed Sunbird  Cinnyris jugularis  nesting from electric wires in Great Nicobar Island
Satish Pande & Niranjan Sant

Recoveries from the  Newsletter for Birdwatchers  (1970)-21
Zafar Futehally

Sinning by a bird book
Lt. General (Retd) Baljit Singh