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but the only instance I can find in such books as I have is that Colonel 

 Marshall found it laying in the nest of a White-necked Stork. Possibly 

 also this habit accounts for Anderson finding 40 eggs under one bird. 



As regards the nesting of BoneDi's Eagle, it may be of some interest to 

 say that what Dewar writes on page 10 of his recent Bird Calendar which 

 presumably represents the latest information on the subject is rather mis- 

 leading, for my experience in this district leads me to believe the eggs can 

 be got without much difficulty, and without attacking high cliffs. In the 

 second week of February 1916, I found a nest on a small tree, only about 

 12 feet up, in a shallow ravine running parallel with the Jumna and about 

 a mile from it. As there were two nestlings in the nest with the parent, I 

 returned to this ravine on the 9th January 1917, and about 600 yards 

 further along the ravine I found " Mrs. Bonelli " sitting on two fresh eggs. 

 The nest was about 20 feet up a banyan and on the edge of the tree. I 

 shot the bird for purpose of identification. I then moved camp away from 

 the Jumna, and on the 18th January again found a Bonelli sitting on two 

 fresh eggs. This was about 30 feet up on a peepal tree, again at the edge 

 of the tree. This nest was found about If miles north of the Canal, which 

 makes it between 5 and 6 miles from the Jumna, and its tree was just on 

 the edge of a patch of dhak jungle, where it overlooked cultivation. Next 

 day, the 19th, 1 found a third Bonelli, not far from the second nest, 

 constructing its nest. I regret to say I shot the second bird also, in order 

 that there might be no possible mistake in identification. Thus 3 nests 

 were found within 11 days, none near cliffs. 



S, G. DE C. IRELAND. 



Fatehpue, U.P., IQth Auf/ust 1917, 



No. IX.— EXTENSION OF HABITAT OF THE HAIPt-CRESTED 

 DRONGO {CHIBIA HOTTENTOTTA). 



Mr. Fitzgerald of Baijnath Tea Estate, wrote and told me that a pair of 

 birds, with 2 or 3 presumably young ones, had made their appearance in 

 Baijnath, Kangra District, Punjab, and as he had never seen them before, 

 in all the years he has been in the District, wondered if I could tell him 

 what they were. I went down to Baijnath a few days later and we shot 

 one to make certain and it proved to be Chibia hottentotta. 



I have never seen this species in the Punjab before and Mr. Fitzgerald, 

 who is a very old resident and a very keen observer, did not know it either. 



There were some ordinary King Crows about at the time and the difference 

 in size between the two genera was very perceptible. 



The measurements are no criterion of the actual difference between them. 

 When on the wing the Chibia looked at least If times the size of the 

 Black Drongo (Z>. ater.) 



I see Gates records its furthest Northern range as " from Garhwal to the 

 extreme East of Assam," so its appearance in the Kangra District is 

 interesting and I think worth recording. 



Our thanks are due to Mr. F. Fitzerald for the discovery. 



C. H. DONALD. 



Egerton Hall, Dharmsala Cantonment. 

 August 261/1, 1917. 



No. X.— SOME NOTES ON THE BURMESE PEAFOAVL {PAVO 

 MUTICUS) IN CAPTIVITY. 



I was much interested in Mr. Stuart Baker's article on this bird in No. 1 

 of Vol. XXIV of this .Journal and having had some of the birds since the 



