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at the fork of two or more huge branches, of some old peepul or 
mango tree. There is no nest, so to speak, but a little dry 
touch wood, a few dead leaves, or a little earth, covering the 
floor, if I may so call it, of the nesting place, forms a scanty 
bed for the eggs. 
feathers, on to the ferruginous portion—in the greater secondary coverts, 
the white, mottled interspaces are chiefly on the outer web, and in the smallest 
coverts, the brown altogether predominates at the tips. The winglet much 
resembles the secondary greater coverts. The primary greater coverts, as a 
whole, are brown, more or less buff at the base and on inner webs, and with 
a tipping and two or three broad, transverse bars (chiefly on the outer webs) 
of mottled white or brown, or mottled buffy and brown. The first four 
primaries are notched on the inner webs conspicuously, and there is a trace of 
the same in the fifth and sixth, The second,third and fourth, are also emarginate 
on the outer web. The extreme tips of all the primaries are mottled fulvous 
white and a faint brown; above this the ground colour of the tips (as far as the 
notches and emarginations, where these exist.) is a slightly yellowish brown, 
and above this the ground colour is a rich buff. All the primaries are barred 
throughout, on both webs, with transverse, irregular, brown bars, very incon- 
spicuous on the brown tips of the first few primaries. The interspaces on 
the outer webs, are every where mottled with brown, and on the earlier 
primaries above the emarginations cover much of or in some nearly the whole, 
web, and below these, have a paler ground (greyish white) than the 
corresponding portions of the inner web. The secondaries are regularly 
barred with brown, broadly on the outer, more narrowly on the inner webs, 
and with the tips, and interspaces of outer webs, greyish white, mottled and 
speckled brown, and the interspaces of the inner webs buff, to buffy white, 
the brown bars growing narrower, and the buff interspaces wider and paler, as 
they approach the interior margin. The upper tail coverts are ferruginous 
buff, with greyish white tips, barred and mottled with brown. The tail feathers 
are brownish buff, with broad, dark brown tips. The tips of ad/ the feathers, 
the whole of the central ones and of the outer webs of the lateral ones, 
with broad, close, irregular, incomplete, mottled white brown and dark 
brown bars, and the inner webs of the lateral tail feathers like the inner webs 
of the secondaries. Base of the neck in front, breast, sides, abdomen, lower 
tail coverts and lower wing coverts (except greater ditto of primaries which 
are pale buff with black tips), ferruginous to pale buff at base, the rest 
being greyish white with several, narrow, clearly defined, transverse, slightly 
wavy brown bars. The tint of the basal portion diminishes in intensity, as 
the feathers recede from the base of the neck, and becomes nearly white in 
the lower tail coverts. The thighs and tarsi are, the former, a dull buff, the 
latter greyish white, with numerous, close, transverse, narrow, wavy brown 
bars. 
No. 2. <A female shot on the nest, March 7th, with all the abdomen bared 
for incubation. 
This corresponded precisely with the above description, yet differed con- 
siderably in appearance, owing first, to the dark circumscribing line of the 
facial disk being less marked; second, to many of the feathers of the white 
throat patch, having excessively narrow, black tippings ; third, to there being a 
much larger extent of the mottled white, on the whole upper surface; 
fourth, to the ferruginous or buff of wings, tail, and bases of body feathers, 
as well as the brown of the tips of primaries and tail feathers being paler, 
