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As a rule, they construct stick nests (which from the same 
pair resorting to them for many successive seasons, and adding 
to them yearly, are at times enormous) in the fork of some large 
tree. At times they appropriate some old nest of the Tawny 
Hagle (A. Fulvescens) placed in some thick and thorny, but 
comparatively low Acacia tree. In most cases, the nests contain 
some lining of more or less green leaves, and a few feathers or 
a little grass. Occasionally I have found the eggs laid in the hol- 
low of some huge stump, or in the depression at the fork of three 
or more large branches, with no stick nest, and only a few dry 
leaves as a bed, but out of more than thirty nests that I found 
one December in trees along the banks of the canal near Hansee 
and Hissar, all but one were regular stick structures. One 
nest contained no lining but a little dry earth. The great 
majority of the nests, that I have examined, contained two eggs, 
often much incubated, but I once found three, and have heard 
of four being met with. In two instances, I see by my notes 
that single fully incubated eggs were found. The eggs of this 
bird vary surprisingly in size and shape. Typically they are a 
broad oval, comparatively very large for the size of the bird, but 
long, oval, pyriform and nearly spherical varieties occur. I 
have taken a very great number of these eggs myself, and have 
extreme sizes of which the cubic contents of the one are fully 
double those of the other. In colour they are a decidedly 
creamy white, in texture often somewhat coarse, but, withall, 
more or less glossy. I have many specimens greatly exceeding 
specimens, being in some, very dark, almost black, in others a moderately dark 
hair brown. here are lar oe white, or pale yellowish white patches, on the 
outer webs of the exterior ‘scapular, and towards the tips of most of the 
larger and median coverts. The tail is a dull rufous fawn, nearly pure white 
towards the tip, with four, and on the central feathers, cenerally five, broad, 
transverse, umber brown bands, darker in some, lighter in others, and the 
pale interspaces on the central tail feathers are much freckled, and in some 
cases entirely suffused with the same colour; this freckling occurs, though in 
a less degree on the succeeding feathers, the interspaces growing clearer and 
brighter as they recede from the centre. The primaries are similar to the 
tail feathers, the tips infuscated or freckled like the central ones, and the 
interspaces clearer and brighter towards the bases. 
The lower parts are gr reyish white, with a faint yellow tinge, everywhere 
except on the middle of the throat, each feather with a narrow dark brown 
shaft stripe, and with numerous very fine, wavy and freckled transverse 
greyish brown bars, or vermicillations. The extent and depth of colour of 
these delicate markings vary much in different specimens, in some almost 
entirely obscuring the ground colour on the breast and abdomen. 
Tibial and tarsal plumes yellowish or pale fulvous white, in some specimens 
with faint, longitudinal, dark brown streaks, and in others with narrow, 
clouded, imperfect, transverse bars of the same colour, 
