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river, sometimes a huge cavity in some old Banyan tree, and at 
times appropriating an old nest of Halietus Leucoryphus. 
Where they make their own nest, on a ledge or recess of a 
cliff, it consists of little but a few sticks, mingled with a few 
feathers, or when in holes of trees, of a few feathers and dead 
‘leaves, but when they annex an old nest of the fishing Hagles, 
(and I have several records of this) they seem to line it more 
carefully with finer twigs, grass and feathers. I have never 
found green leaves under the eggs of this species. 
Normally they lay two eggs; I have altogether records of 
nine nests, and in none of these were there more than two eggs 
or young ones. 
The eggs are very perfect, broad ovals, white with, in most 
specimens, the faintest possible creamy tinge. The shell close- 
grained and compact, freely pitted all over its surface, but 
nevertheless more or less glossy. They seem to me undistin- 
geuishable from many of those of Ascalaphia Coromanda. In 
size they vary from 2°29 to 2-44 in length, and from 1°84 to 
1:94 in breadth, but the average of nine eggs measured was 
2°3 by 1°88. 
Mr. G. Marshall writes: “This bird is pretty common in 
the Saharunpoor district, it lays two, round, white eggs, and 
returns year after year to the same nest. I found one nest in 
_ a hollow in the fork of a Banyan tree about twenty-five feet 
from the ground, the hollow being so deep, that the parent bird, 
sitting, could not be seen from the ground on any side. I found 
it accidentally, as I was climbing the tree for another nest. I 
watched it for three years ; in 1866, on the 10th April, I found 
on the throat immediately below it, pure white, with, towards the tips, a dark 
brown central streak, and three or four narrow wavy bars of reddish brown ; the 
feathers on each side of this patch, on the sides and front of the neck, breast, 
abdomen and flanks, a somewhat rufous or pinkish brown, eaeh feather with 
a narrow well defined central streak of very dark brown and closely barred 
throughout its whole length on both webs with narrow transverse wavy bars 
of a somewhat darker brown than the ground colour, though much lighter 
than the central streak. Thigh coverts and evnt feathers uniform fulvous 
or brownish white. Lower tail coverts very pale brown or fulvous white, 
streaked and barred like the body feathers. I note that the bars are closer 
and more numerous on the breast, where the general tint is also more vivacious, 
and the reverse of this, on the flanks and lower tail coverts. The wing lining 
somewhat, similar to the body feathers, but much less narrowly banded and al- 
together lighter ; the greater lower coverts, however, of the primaries are pure 
white, broadly tipped with blackish brown. ‘Lower surface of the quills 
glossy brown, darkest on the primaries, tipped with greyish white and with 
three or four transverse bars, of greyish white, growing yellower as they 
approach the bases, where the inner webs are mostly yellowish white. 
