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Sub-Himalayan ranges and regions, as far west at any rate as 
Kangra, at heights of from 2500 to 5500 above the sea level, 
laying in March, April and May. 
The nest is, I believe, always placed on trees in the imme- 
diate vicinity of water, not at the top of the tree, but in some 
fork, as Capt. Cock says, “ like the common Kite.” 
It is circular, loosely made of thicker or thinner sticks and 
twigs, and lined with fresh leaves or fine twigs, and roots of grass; 
it varies in size from 1°5 to 2 feet in diameter and from 4 to 8 
inches in thickness. 
They lay, 1 believe, usually only one egg, but in the Dhoon, 
where they are plentiful, natives assert that they not unfrequent- 
ly have two young ones, and must therefore, if this be true, oc- 
casionally at least lay two eggs. 
The only two eggs that I have yet seen of this species, both 
of which were taken by Capt. Cock near Dhurumsalla, differed 
much in appearance. The one, though considerably larger than 
average specimens, and with a closer and less chalky texture, 
greatly reminded one of a common type of the eggs of Neophron 
Ginginianus ; while the other, though of course smaller, in 
shape and richness of colouring, resembled some of the more 
brilliantly coloured eggs of the Golden Eagle, such as Mr. 
Hewitson’s second figure, in his third edition. The first eg¢ 
had a dingy reddish white ground, with at the large end aragged 
cap of dingy brick red, mottled with deep, blackish, blood-red. 
Beyond the cap, which was of the size of a rupee, streaks, specks 
and splashes, all having a longitudinal direction and looking 
much like a dense reddish brown shower falling from the cap, 
thickly covered the whole of the rest of the egg, growing less 
and less dense towards the small end. 
The other had a pure white ground, and was thickly blotched, 
mottled and clouded with the richest blood and brick red. The 
big end for the space of about a rupee exhibited no markings, 
but a few specks and spots, and though the rest of the ege is 
every where pretty thickly covered, the markings are most dense 
at the small end. In shape, the one egg is a nearly perfect 
ellipse, slightly pointed towards the small end, but the other 
egg is a very broad oval, very obtuse at the large end and scarce- 
ly less so at the smaller extremity. 
These two eggs measure 2°8 by 2°25 and 2°79 by 2°15. Capt. 
Cock, of Dhurumsalla, to whom I owe these eggs and many 
others, as well as much valuable information, sends me the fol- 
lowing note in regard to the nidification of this species. 
“JT have taken, or rather found, four nests of this species in 
the neighbourhood of Dhurumsalla, at heights of from 4000 to 
