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containing a single egg in a large Peepul tree near Bhurtpore. 
The nest (as I said before, commonly placed on some conve- 
nient ledge or suitable recess in the cliff’s face) is very large, 
from four to six feet in diameter, and is composed of thickish and 
moderate-sized sticks, varying from 1°5 to 0°5 in diameter. 
The nest itself varies in thickness from a few inches to a couple 
of feet, and being always finished off to a level ; when placed, 
as often happens, on a more or less shelving declivity, is much 
thicker exteriorly than interiorly. In the nests that I have 
examined, branches and twigs of various kinds of thorny 
Acacias were the chief materials used. In no nest that I have 
seen, not even in that one mentioned as found on a Peepul 
tree, was there any very perceptible depression in the interior 
of the nest. In the centre of the platform, a circular space, of some 
eighteen inches in diameter, is commonly smoothed over with a 
thin layer of green twigs; and in the centre of this again, a 
smaller space of perhaps one foot in diameter is carefully carpeted 
with green leaves, those of the Neem, Peepul, Peeloo, and 
other trees being apparently indifferently made use of. 
Normally, they lay two eggs, but I have once found three in 
a nest, and on two occasions have known of a single, much 
incubated egg being met with. 
I have not seen many eggs of this species. All I have seen 
were oval, varying slightly in size and in the comparative 
length of the minor axis. Many are unspotted, the rest are 
more or less faintly blotched, streaked, or spotted with pale 
yellowish or reddish brown. I have never seen a richly coloured 
egg of this species. ‘The ground colour is that of all Hagles of 
this type, a pale greyish or bluish white, often becoming, during 
the course of incubation, much soiled and discoloured. 
Tn size they vary from 2°56 to 3 in length and from 1°95 to 
2:22 in breadth, but the average of nine eggs was 2°83 by 2:1. 
My friend, Mr. Brookes, whom I first put up to the breeding 
places of this bird in the Htawah district, and who has since 
taken many eggs there, I believe, writes, (this has since appeared 
in the Ibis) :— 
“The eggs were usually two, but in two instances only one. 
Two were white, unmarked, but all the others sparingly 
blotched and spotted with bright reddish brown, and sometimes 
intermixed with blotches of light reddish grey. The largest 
egg measures 2°96 inches by 2:16 inches, and the smallest 
2°79 inches by 2°04 inches. .I have a pair of eggs out of the 
same nest, one plain white, the other well marked.” 
Capt. Hutton, writing from Mussooree, says “ Hutolnaetus 
Bonellii remains here all the year, breeding in places similar 
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