the Birds of Chinkiang. 11 
147. Burto nemriuastus T. & S. 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 487. 
Seen in winter flying over bare reed-fields. I have a fine 
example shot at Ngankin (Anhwei Province) by Mr. A. 
L. Pichon, Imp. Mar. Customs Service. 
148. Aquiza cLaneéA Pall. 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 487. 
The first intimation that I had of Eagles breeding at 
Chinkiang was on May 5, 1901, when the local pig-trackers 
brought me a very richly-coloured Eagle’s egg, taken from 
an eyrie situated on one of the highest hills in the neigh- 
bourhood. On May 11 of the following year I sent the 
Fohkien collectors to the eyrie, where they found two eggs 
and shot the female. The nest, made of sticks and lined 
with fresh tufts of pine, was on a ledge on the precipitous 
side of the hill, which is here a perpendicular rocky wall some 
thirty or forty feet high, rising abruptly from the steep slope 
below it. The ledge was, however, easily accessible from 
above, being only a short way down from the top of the hill. 
It was backed by a wall of rock some ten feet in height 
and overshadowed by a small tree (Rhus sp.) which grew 
from the back. The egg obtained on May 5, 1901, is 
broad and almost oval in shape and measures 2°55 x 2°07”. 
The ground-colour is greenish white; it has an irregular 
cap of reddish-brown (almost madder-brown) confluent 
blotches on the smaller end, with spots and specks of the 
same colour on the rest of the shell. It was slightly in- 
cubated. One of the eggs taken on May 11, 1902, is very 
like the former, but the cap is on the larger end, and there 
are large longitudinal splashes over the greater part of the 
shell. In shape it is oval-ovate and it measures 2°66X 
2:08’’. The other egg of the clutch is of a long oval-ovate 
shape and measures 2°70 x 2°05". It has a large cap of 
washed-out red and violet on the larger end extending half- 
way down one side. The rest of the shell is spotted and 
splashed with the same washed-out red and violet. These 
eggs were also a little incubated. 
