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egos, not the least show of resistance was made, the old birds 
either sailing off with a loud querulous ery, or sullenly remain- 
ing on an adjacent tree, watching the robbery that was going 
on. On one occasion, however, I met with a very different 
reception, when my servant was attacked with an unexpected 
ferocity, from which nothing but my gun could have saved 
him. The circumstance occurred in January 1832, when on 
my way up the country. The nest was placed near the summit 
of a tree, growing on one of the Colgong rocks, in the middle 
of the Ganges, and contained two half- fledged young ones. 
Vhe old birds offered a most determined resistance, and without 
the aid of fire arms we should decidedly have been defeated, as 
they dashed fiercely and fearlessly at the man in the tree, who 
prayed hard to be allowed to descend, and was only kept at his 
post by the promise of reward and fear of the cudgel. At first 
we had to contend with the female ouly, but after one or two 
rapid stoops and dashes at the robber’s head, which he avoided 
by bobbing under the nest, finding she could make no impres- 
sion, she suddenly uttered a shrill ery, which was responded to 
in the distance, and in an instant after, her mate was seen 
swiftly gliding to her aid, from the opposite bank of the river. 
The two then charged together towards the nest with the rage 
and fierceness of despair, and so terrified the man in the tree, 
hampered as he was with the young ones, that had I not fired 
at and wounded the Hagles as they advance: d, they would 
assuredly have hurled lim into the river. In this m: uner, 
however, after repeated attempts to come to the rescue, we 
managed at last to drive off the old birds and secure the booty. 
At the end of five weeks the young ones exhibited as nearly as 
neee’e the plumage of the bird figured by Hardwicke and 
Gray as “ H. Lineatus.” 
Bt ssily Captain Hutton* has sent me the following further 
remarks in regard to this species. ‘In the Dhera Dhoon this 
* T am indebted to Captain Hutton for many interesting notes on the 
nidification of our Indian Birds, 
The following are some general remarks by the same well known natu- 
ralist in regard to the locality whence the information that he furnishes has 
been chiefly drawn. 
“The tract of country in which the following observations have been made, 
comprises the Dhoon, and the greater portion of the mountain district of 
Ghurwal, being enclosed between the Ganges and the Jumna, on the east 
and west, and the snowy ranges and the Siwaliks, on the north and south. 
In proceeding from the Plains proper, south of the last mentioned range, 
up to the snows, it is usual for convenience sake, to divide the tract into three 
distinct regions, termed:the Southern or Terai region, the Central or Forest 
region, and the Northern or Snowy region, As night naturally be expected 
