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Mr. W. Theobald makes the following remark on the 
breeding of this bird in the valley of Kashmir. ‘“ Lays in the 
3rd week of April; eggs six in number, blunt ovate pyriform ; 
measuring from 1°51 to 1°68 inches in length, and from 1°22 to 
1°27 in. in breadth. Colour, pale reddish brown, freckled and 
blotched with brownish red. Nest, hole in serai wall of 
Thanna, south of Buranegala, Shahabad, and valley generally.” 
It will be observed that his dimensions are smaller than 
those of the eggs that I have measured ; and that he found the 
nest on a building. | 
Dr. F. Stoliczka remarks that “ Tinnunculus Alaudarius is 
common all through the N. W. Himalaya, on the. southern 
side as well asin W. Tibet. I found this common Huropean 
Hawk breeding near Chini in narrow crevices of rocks. The 
eggs are dirty white, mottled and irregularly spotted with 
reddish brown. The young birds vary extremely in colour of 
their plumage; but the old ones are in every way identical 
with those from Europe.” 
Since the above was written, Capt. Cock has sent me the 
following : “ Tinnunculus Alaudarius. This bird remains with us 
all the year round, although it retires higher up the mountain 
during the month of May. I noticed a pair of birds about a 
precipice some two or three times, and concluded that they built 
there. On the 27th of May, I went with a rope and found that 
there were three young ones only a few days old, in a niche in the 
precipice that was overhung with grass, rendering the entrance 
to the nest difficult to be seen. ‘This nest was on the mountains 
at a height of 7,000 feet above the sea level, and I doubt their 
breeding lower down, though an officer assured me he saw a 
Kestrel breeding on a cliff on the banks of the Beas in Febru- 
ary. I found another nest at about 8000 feet elevation on the 
27th of May with one egg in it, I had watched the birds pair- 
ing some days before, and with the help of a rope managed to 
secure the solitary egg. On the 5th of June I sent up a party 
who got three more eges out of this same nest.—T'wo of the eggs, 
the largest and smallest measured 1°55 by 1:16 and 1°35 by 1-14.” 
Mr. R. Thompson sends me the following,“ The Kestrel breeds 
in this country, preferring the shelving of a rock to any other 
situation. I have seen the nest and young on the precipices 
of the Sewaliks. A dozen nests might be pointed out on the 
precipices overhanging the Kossilla river between Khyrna and 
the Lat bridge. In the valley here noted, it may be seen - 
breeding in company with the Neophron.” 
“ At Pocree in the interior of Ghurwal, a Kestrel carried off a 
large piece of apugree belonging to one of my Shikarees and took 
