Lor 
to those selected by G. Barbatus, but although we have several 
times found the nests, we never could get at them. It stoops 
to fowls and is destructive to the larger game birds.” 
Mr. R. Thompson has the following note in regard to this 
species in Kumaon and Gurhwal. “I have never been up to 
examine the nests of these birds, because they are always placed 
on the most inaccessible precipices, but I can vouch for the 
time of their breeding, viz. from April to June. I had a nest 
for several years in view, but never could get at it; it was on a 
steep precipice and none would volunteer to assist me. That the 
birds had their nests there, was more than established, because 
during other periods of the year, the pair used to carry off my 
poultry and eat it wherever they found a place suitable ; but in the 
breeding season they always carried their plunder to the nest. 
“One year [ caught the young birds, two in number, the 
first in July, and the second in August. 
“JT have subsequently caught young nestling birds at Nynee 
Tal along with the old ones, thus taking the whole family. 
This was in the month of August. 
“In February last, I saw a pair apparently courting, which 
flew to and out of a large nest placed in a tree in the forest, at 
a place called Bunderjewrah, eight miles east of Ramnuggur.”’ 
Hlsewhere (in the Ibis) I have thus described the taking of a 
nest of this species. 
“ About a mile above the confluence of the clear blue waters 
of the Chumbal and the muddy stream of the Jumna, in a 
range of bold perpendicular clay cliffs, that rise more than a 
hundred feet above the cold weather level of the former river, 
I took my first nest of Bonelli’s Hagle. In the rainy season, 
water trickling from above, had, in a way trickling water often 
does, worn a deep recess imtd'the face of the cliff, about one- 
third of the way down. Above and below, it had merely 
broadly groved the surface, but here, finding a softer bed I 
suppose, it had worn in a recess some five feet high and three 
feet deep and broad. The bottom of this recess sloped down- 
wards, but the birds, by using branches with large twiggy 
extremities, had built up a level platform that projected some 
two feet beyond the face of the cliff. It was a great mass of 
sticks, fully half a ton in weight, and on this platform (with 
only her head visible from where we stood at the water’s edge) 
an old female Hagle sat in state. This was on Christmas day ! 
It is not many holidays a really working official gets in India, 
or at least can afford to give himself, and part of mine are 
generally spent in the open air, gun in hand. 
“At the foot of the cliffs is a talus of rough blocks of clay, 
