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it with two young ones ; in 1867, I visited it on the 17th March, 
and again found young ones; in 1868, on the 24th February, I 
found two eggs, the first of which was hatched on 14th March, 
the other egg I took. The tree in which the nest was, was a 
very large one, in a small grove of Jamun trees, on the bank of 
an extensive jheel near Sirsawar.”’ 
Mr. Brookes mentions that he “ shot a female on the 25th of 
February, sitting on two addled eggs. What little nest there was, 
consisted of sticks, and was placed on a shelf of the clay cliffs 
of the Jumna, in the Etawah district. The shelf was slightly 
overhung, and on it, within twenty yards of the Fish Owl, a 
Neophron had her nest.’’ Towards the end of July, I found a 
pair of these Owls with two fully grown young ones, in a tiny 
cave in the rocky and precipitous banks of the Kosila, near 
Kakuree Ghat. The cave, the mouth of which was veiled by a 
large down-trailing Andromeda bush, had obviously been their 
nesting place, and though well concealed, was easy of access. 
There were a few sticks covered over with castings and remains 
of numerous birds and bones of small mammals. I turned the 
whole family out of their quarters, but did not otherwise 
molest them, an act of forbearance which I later had cause to 
regret, as they ceased not, the livelopg night through, to give 
forth the most vociferous protests (from the cliff face, immediate- 
ly above my tent) against, as I suppose, my neglect to honour 
them with a place in my museum. 
On January 11th, 1867, I visited a large nest in a Peepul tree 
overhanging the Jumna below Sheregurh, in which, both in 1865 
and 1866, to my personal knowledge, a pair of H. Leucoryphus 
had reared their young. To my surprise, it was tenanted by a 
pair of Ketupa Ceylonensis, which had carefully relined the nest, 
and had at that time a solitary young one in it, some seven 
days old, a ball of whitish down. On the nest we found two 
Quails, a Pigeon, Doves and a Mynah, all with the heads, necks 
and breasts eaten away, but with the wings, back, feet and tail 
remaining almost intact. ‘T'wo or three of them were quite 
dry, and one which I still have, is quite as good a specimen, as 
most of those that I owe to an eminent naturalist, who appears 
to preserve his birds by first pulling out half the feathers and 
then haying what remains, carefully run over, on very dirty 
ground, by a heavy cart wheel! 
On the banks of the Sutledge and again near Bhurtpoor 
I found nests which I had been led to as those of H. Leucory- 
phus, occupied by K. Ceylonensis. 
I have never yet had certain evidence of their feeding on fish. 
