At night-time many of the trees are illumined by hundreds of fireflies.

…in August the voices of the birds are rarely heard after dark…but the pied crested-cuckoo continues to call lustily…

Numbers of rosy starlings are returning from Asia Minor, where they have reared up their broods. The inrush of these birds begins in July and continues till October. They are the forerunners of the autumn immigrants. Towards the end of the month the garganey or blue-winged teal (Querquedula circia), which are the earliest of the migratory ducks to visit India, appear on the tanks. Along with them comes the advance-guard of the snipe. The pintail snipe (Gallinago stenura) are invariably the first to appear, but they visit only the eastern parts of Northern India. Large numbers of them sojourn in Bengal and Assam. Stragglers appear in the eastern portion of the United Provinces; in the western districts and in the Punjab this snipe is a rara avis. By the third week in August good bags of pintail snipe are sometimes obtained in Bengal. The fantail or full-snipe* (G. coelestis) is at least one week later in arriving…The jack-snipe (G. gallinula) seems never to appear before September.

The…pied crested-cuckoos…are likely to have eggs or young. The resident ducks are all busy with their nests. The majority of them lay their eggs in July, so that in August they are occupied with their young.