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Sitapur, a cantonment situated about 60 miles from this 

 station and almost due north o£ it. 



CoRACiAs GARRULUs (Linn.). European Roller. 



I did not know before that the European Roller came 

 much east of the Punjab, and was consequently very much 

 surprised, when out shooting about the 25tli of October, 

 1899, to see one of these birds flying about a snipe-jheel. 

 It was so tame that I was able to wait till I could make sure 

 of not injuring it, and then I knocked it over with a lightly- 

 charged cartridge. The bird was a male, and I did not see 

 any mate. The jheel was right out in the open, in the centre 

 of an "^ usar ^^ plain, surrounded on all sides by high grass. 

 The bird kept making darts into the air after insects^ and 

 returning to perch on the dry clods amongst the rushes. 



[Since writing this, Lt.-Col. H. B. Thornhill, I.S.C, 

 tells me that he has come across the species in Bareilly; 

 and in a letter the late Mr. George Reid has stated that on 

 one or two occasions he fancied that he saiv the European 

 Roller, though he never succeeded in actually obtaining a 

 specimen.] 



HiERAETUs PENNATUS (Blytli) . The Booted Eagle. 



This bird is not included by Reid in his list of birds of 

 the Lucknow Civil Division^ although it is true that he 

 remarks that it is " almost certain to be found.'^ In the latest 

 catalogue (1890) of the Lucknow Provincial Museum there 

 are three specimens entered as obtained in Lucknow, viz. : 

 ad. sex?, ad. S )]^- S' ^ have come across this handsome 

 little Eagle on two or three occasions in the large park of 

 La Martiniere College. The first example was a female, which 

 I shot. I was attracted to it by the cries of a party of Argya 

 malcolmi, which were flying all round, evidently in a perfect 

 fever of excitement. This was on Dec. 17, 1897. Several 

 times after this I saw another bird, which I concluded was the 

 mate of the former. My second specimen was also obtained 

 in the Martiniere park, while sitting in a sheshum-tree, in 

 the middle of March, 1899. On examining the label I find 

 that I did not determine the sex, but, judging from its small 



