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Rare. I have only come across this bird once here; this year obtained 

 a nest with eggs shooting hen bird. This was near Changlagali. 

 1186. Glaucidium brodiei. — The Collared Pigmy Owlet. 

 Birds common at Murree and more so at Dungagali, but I have only 

 once this year obtained the eggs here. They hide their nest holes 

 most carefully. This nest had 5 eggs. I have never previously taken 

 more than 4 eggs. 



No. 1198. Neophron percnopterus. — The Egyptian Vulture. 

 Birds common, but I have only seen one nest. This was taken on 

 11th May 1904 and contained 1 egg. a beautiful dark-coloured one. 

 The nest was on a ledge of rock in an almost inaccessible precipice. The 

 birds continued to occupy the nest, but did not lay again. 

 1206. Aquila hastata. — The Small Indian Spotted Eagle. 

 I was luckv enough to find one nest of this bird about 3 miles from 

 Dungagali. The nest was placed high up in a tree growing on the face 

 of a nasty precipice. Men only climbed up with the assistance of 

 ropes. The nest contained 1 incubated egg and was taken on 7th June 

 1904. I shot the hen bird off the nest. 

 1210, Ictinaetus malayensis. — The Black Eagle. 

 A nest with one much incubated egg near Changlagali on 4th May 

 1904. The nest was one of the nastiest to get at I have ever seen. It 

 was high up on a fir tree on the face of a very bad precipice. The bird 

 sat until the man was quite near the nest and then swooped down at 

 him till shot at. The pair continued near the nest the rest of the season, 

 but did not lay again. The egg is a very handsome one, smeared with 

 grey and dark purple ; the markings are nowhere in blotches, but 

 smeared, running round axis of egg, I do not think they lay more 

 than one egg. 



1217. Spilornis cheela. — The Crested Serpent-Eagle. 

 I obtained one nest with the hen bird on 6th May 1904 ; it was so 

 much incubated it unfortunately broke in cleaning. The nest was high 

 up in a fir tree. The single egg was a long narrow oval much pointed at 

 small end. Ground colour greyish- white with a dull dingy cap of 

 pale brown ; it was without exception the dingiest eagle or allied egg 

 I have ever seen. 



1229. Milvus govinda. — The Common Pariah Kite. 

 Common. I saw several nests at Murree and Dungagali, but did not 

 trouble to take them down. 



