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Haliaetus leucoryphus (Blytli). Pallas's Fishing Eagle. 



Hind. [Lucknoiv] : Baz, Dhenk, 



Though not seen often in Lucknow itself, this fine Eagle 

 hreeds all over the Division from October to February, 

 though most eggs are taken in November and December. 

 The nest is an immense irregular structure of sticks, lined 

 with leaves. It is in most cases placed in some high fork of 

 of a pipal-tree, near a jheel. The first I found was on 

 Nov. 1st, but was empty, though the bird was sitting by it. 

 The shikari was sent out to the place later, and brought in 

 three fresh eggs on Nov. 23rd. These are greenish Avhite, 

 very faintly marked with brown. In the early part of 

 January, Mr. Lucas brought in two more similarly marked 

 fresh eggs. 



Liopicus MAHRATTENsis (Bonap.). Yellow-fronted Pied 

 Woodpecker. 



Mr. William Harper showed me a nest-hole in a tree in 

 the compound of Messrs. Peake, Allen, and Co., chemists, 

 from which he had taken three half-fledged young birds. 

 These were placed in a cage and left out of doors during the 

 day, and the parent birds visited them regularly and brought 

 them food. Unfortunately the cage was placed, in the sun 

 by a careless servant and two of the brood died, but the third 

 survived and was, when I saw it, in a most flourishing 

 condition. 



Tachornis batassiensis (Hartert). Palm-Swift. 



On March 31st I observed several pairs breeding in the 

 fan-palms in the Wingfield Park; and a few days later I saw 

 some more in the Horticultural Gardens. Probably they 

 had eggs, but, so far as I was concerned, the nests were quite 

 inaccessible. This Swift does not appear to leave the 

 neighbourhood of its favourite tree ; at all events, I have 

 not noticed the bird anywhere else in the station. 



HiERococcYx VARius (Horsf.). Common Hawk-Cuckoo. 

 Hind. [Lncknoio] : Popiya. 



On March 21st I took a nest of Argya malcolmi con- 

 taining four eggs. Three of these were precisely similar in 



