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Khandesh, aud from our liill&=, Pavagarh(a mountain 28 miles north-east 

 of Baroda), is seen;" but I have not yet found it. It probably will 

 turn up in the hilly forests of Chota Udepur and tbe Panch Mahals. 



39. Spilornis cheela (Lath.). — The Crested Serpent-eagle Butler 

 records only from " Sind, rare." Mr. Barnes {Birds of Bombay} says it 

 11 is very rare ; one was obtained at Savantvadi by Mr. Crawford ; aud 

 another in Sind by Mr. Blandford : these are, I believe, the only 

 recorded instances of its occurrence within our limits." I shot a female 

 and got an egg in a nest at Pattra, 15 miles from Dohad, Panch 

 Mahals, 12th April 1886. Mr. Doig and I were both of opinion when 

 examining it in the flesh that this bird was true cheela and not minor, 

 and so I think its right place is in the museum of our Society, where 

 ii will be found by any one wishing to verify the record, which, as we 

 had only measurements to go by (Hume, Rough Notes^ Jerdon and 

 Barnes being consulted), and no skins to compare, would be desirable. 

 The nest was in a fork of a Kodai tree, in thin jungle, 20 u yards in 

 from the flank of the bed of the Anas River. It was a poor straggly 

 affair, not bigger than a Kite's, and hardly so compact. The egg, hand- 

 somely blotched and streaked with dark red at the larger end, mea- 

 sures 2*6 x 2*2. On the 25th of May I saw a pair of either this species 

 or S. minor feeding a young bird near Beecheewara (Dungarpur, 

 Meywar). 



57* Pemis ptihrhynchus (Tern.). — Major Butler records the Crested 

 Honey-buzzard from u Mount Abu, rare." Mr. Doig tells me that he 

 has shot it in the Ahmedabad District; he and I found a nest, one egg, 

 in a high Kadai tree in thickish jungle at Singargarh, near Saonth 

 Panch Mahals, and shot the female on the 25th April 1886 ; and we saw 

 another at Saran, near Dungarpur, Meywar, 5th May 1886. The 

 egg was white, faintly marked with cold brown at the larger end. 



65. Symium octllatum (Less.) is .said by Butler to be a "perma- 

 nent resident (I believe)." I found its nest, two eggs, 4th March 1886 

 near the Race-course, Baroda. One egg was much harder set than the 

 other, and had a bloodstain on it from the remains of a half-eaten 

 squirrel that lay beside it» In 1885 I was too late for this nest, find- 

 ing one fluffy little fellow snapping his bill at me when I called on the 

 family on the 31st March. 



72. Ketupa ceylonensis (Gmel.). — u Sind, lare," says Major Butler; 



1 has not yet been recorded from Gujerat, neither did I meet with it in 



Rajputana or Central India" says Mr. Barnes. Mr. Doig and I saw 



three, and shot one adult and one young bird at Saran, near 



