66 Mr. P. W. Munn on the Birds 



same pair were constantly about the place the year before, 

 they did not breed. The nest was begun in March and was 

 a comparatively small, flimsy structure, built entirely of 

 casuarina-twigs, broken off green from the tree in which the 

 nest was built, and with the leaves on. I never saw either 

 bird carry any materials to the nest from anywhere else, and 

 the only time they spent in building was a little while in the 

 early morning before 9 a.m. When at the nest the female 

 continually uttered a shrill, querulous cry. I got two fresh 

 eggs from this nest on May 10, and the male bird, a small 

 dark-plumaged specimen, was shot off them; he sat so close 

 that I had to shoot at the nest with a light charge before he 

 would leave it. A fortnight later the female — a large and 

 very light-coloured bird — was shot ; she had in the meantime 

 found another mate, and, having pulled down the old nest, 

 contemplated building there again. In less than a week after- 

 wards the surviving male bird reappeared, paired with a light- 

 coloured female, and for the rest of the year they remained 

 about the place, but did not breed. The next year this same 

 pair Avere evidently breeding close by, though I did not 

 succeed in finding their nest. The eggs were beautiful 

 specimens, one being so densely spotted with blood-red as 

 to conceal the gi^ound-colour, the other less thickly spotted 

 with paler red on a yellowish-white ground. 



When disturbed or irritated, this bird erects the feathers 

 round its head into a sort of hood, much as Spilornis cheela 

 does. 



They are easily distinguished on the wing by the small 

 size of the head and the large tail, and the legs are usually 

 stretched out straight beneath the tail. 



103. Falco jugger. (Lugger Falcon.) 



Resident, sparingly distributed, and not very common. 

 In the same casuarina-tree in which the Honey-Buzzards — 

 mentioned above — had built in 1890, a White-backed Vulture 

 built at the end of the same year and brought off one young 

 bird. On January 23, 1891, having seen a pair of Falcons 

 in and around the nest for some time, I sent a coolie up to 



