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hill slope, between 7,000 and 8,000 feet above sea level. The nest was a large 

 platform, 3 to 4 feet across, consisting of sticks, and was built on a branch 

 where it bifurcated from the main trunk. There was one fresh egg in the 

 nest, which measures 2'5 inches in length and 2*05 inches in breadth. The 

 surface is coarse and rough, and is greyish-white in colour, plentifully speckled 

 and blotched with pale brown and pale mauve. According to Blanford,the 

 Black Eagle has not been observed west of Chamba, but I have seen it 

 more than once in these parts, and in the present instance shot the bird o£E 

 the nest and identified it. I send the foot of the bird, which is sufiBcient for 

 identification. 



KENNETH BUCHANAN, Captain, 

 Changla Gali, August, 1899. 



No. XXII.— FOOD OF THE PALM-SQUIRREL, 



When walking in an upper verandah this morning I noticed on an adja- 

 cent Hat-terraced roof, that was still wet after several hours of quiet rain, 

 a common grey squirrel (^Sciurus palmarum) eating some kind of small 

 beetles, which surprised me, as I had always understood that squirrels were 

 purely vegetable feeders. 



T. W. BARTLETT. 



Waltair, Madras Presidency, Augmt, 1899, 



It is well known that the Palm Squirrel will eat small insects when pressed for food, and 

 it has bs'-n aeen, by the writer, scratching the red eartb ofiE the trunk of a tree and seizing 

 the Termites that were underneath. 



EDiToa. 



No. XXIII.— NESTING OF THE LARGE-BILLED WILLOW 

 WARBLER (ACANTHOPNtUSTE MAGNIROSTRIS). 

 I beg to record having taken the nest of the above-mentioned bird on the 

 15th of this month at Changla Gali, about ten miles from Murree, at an 

 elevation of about 8,500 feet. 



I send two specimens of the bird and one egg for the Society's collection. 

 The fen ale was shot off the nest, which was a large loosely-made domed 

 structure of moss and maiden-hair stems, lined with fine grass. It was 

 situated under an overhanging bank, on the side of a steep wooded hill, 

 supported by the projecting root of a tree. The nest contained 4 fresh pure 

 white eggs, average length •72" and breadth 'b\. 



KENNETH BUCHANAN, Captain. 

 Murree Hills, July^ 1899. 



The idfntification of the bird has been verified by l^r. B. Comber and also Mr. E. C S, 

 Bak^T, who describe the find as an important one. The bird has long been known to 

 breed in Kashmir, but the nest has not been found before. 



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