54 Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker 07i the [Ibis, 



lay on the upper part were much smaller and more pliant, 

 and seemed in some cases to have been torn from living 

 trees. 



The male secured another partner within a very short 

 time of the death of his wife, and in the subsequent years 

 the pair built a nest on the opposite side of the ridge, where 

 they were quite safe from molestation, for though we could 

 see it well enough, we could not get at it. 



A second nest, taken in the adjoining Khasia Hills, was 

 built in a tree growing on the side of the Lailancote- 

 Cherrapoonji cliffs. I was never able to visit this nest in 

 time to take the egg; but in 1913, after I had left India, one 

 of my collectors sent me home an egg which he had taken 

 from it. He refused to again rob the nest on the ground 

 that the birds had attacked and nearly killed him on this 

 occasion, and stipulated for the gift of a gun and ammuni- 

 tion to enable him to shoot or scare the birds away before 

 taking the egg. 



Colonel R. H. Rattray, who took this Eagle's egg in 

 Danga Gali, found the parents quite as bold as those which 

 I had robbed. He writes : — 



" The only place I ever came across these Eagles breeding 

 was near Danga Gali. During the summer of 1903 I was 

 staying in Murree, and my men then reported to me that 

 they had found an Eagle's nest in the Gali in question. 

 When, however, we went out and examined it, we found 

 that the young one had been hatched out. 



" In 1904 I again went up to Danga Gali, arriving there 

 about the 20th of April, and at once put men on to watch the 

 hillside upon which the birds had nested the previous year. 

 On the 3rd of May they found the nest occupied, and reported 

 to me that the bird was sitting. I went out the next day, 

 and found the great stick platform in a tall fir-tree, half- 

 way down a nasty precipice. After a daugeroiis climb, we 

 succeeded in getting to the ledge, out of which the tree 

 grew, and I sent the men up, who reported one egg, which 

 1. directed them to bring down.. The birds were most 

 aggressive whilst the man was on; the- tree, atnd: I had some 



