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able localities) but I have never myself had the good fortune to 
see or take anest. My friend, Capt. Marshall, R. E., furnishes 
me with the following note on the nidification of this species. 
* Builds in the Saharunpoor district in the end of May and 
beginning of June. The nest is commenced about the end of 
April and the young are hatched by the middle of June. 
“The nest is placed ina fork near the top ofa large tree, 
about thirty-five or forty feet from the ground. All that I 
have found, have been in the line of trees along the bank of 
the Eastern Jumna Canal, on the outside ones farthest from 
the water, and always in Sheesum trees. I found four nests, 
one with young (on the 10th June) and three with eggs on the 
22nd of May and 8rd and 11th of June. All the eggs were 
hard set. ‘The nest is a large circular platform-like structure 
of sticks, with a few dead leaves in the egg receptacle, but no 
other lining. I noticed no remains of food in any of them. 
The diameter of the whole nest was about twenty inches, and the 
interior depth about two inches. I have never found more 
than one egg in any nest; the egg now before me is a perfect, 
but very blunt oval ; of a slightly yellowish white ground, some- 
what profusely spotted and blotched with rather faint yellowish 
brown, and a pale washed-out purplish brown, which latter 
colour greatly predominates; the egg is absolutely glossless.”’ 
An egg which I owe to Capt. Marshall’s kindness, is a broad 
oval in shape, and has a greyish white ground, richly blotched 
and spotted with pale purple. ‘This egg is somewhat larger in 
every way than that figured by Mr. Hewitson ; it has no gloss, 
and when held up against the light, the shell, as in all these 
Eagles, is a bright sea-green. 
This egg and the one above described by Capt. Marshall, 
measure respectively 2°7 & 2:2 and 2°5 x 1:96. 
The egg figured by Mr. Hewitson from Mr. Wolley’s collec- 
tion, measures 2°44 by 2-02. 
Without pretending to dogmatize in regard to a matter 
which I have not by any means fully investigated, I am 
inclined to think, that the changes of plumage in this species, 
have not yet been satisfactorily determined. 
There are two supposed races of this bird, one the western, 
or smaller form, A. Nevia, Gmel. and the other the eastern 
and robuster form, A. Clanga, Pallas. Now whether this latter 
be really a form of Nevia, or whether as I suspect, it really 
represents the second stage of A. Imperialis (q. v.) it seems 
certain to me that our bird is the feebler or eastern form, the 
true Nevia of most EKuropean authors. 
Further on I shall give exact, and more or less detailed, 
