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large trees, where Pigeons and Parrots are in the habit of roosting, 
while the Jugger delights in dry plains. 
16. LirHoratco cuicavueEra, Daud. 
At Jelallabad, in the Shabjehanpore district, I came across three 
pairs of these Falcons, which were nesting within sight of each 
other ; two of them had built on trees only a few yards apart. These 
nests contained one and two eggs each; and although I halted for the 
express purpose of obtaining full clutches, the Crows forestalled me. 
One nest escaped from these marauders, and enables me to add some- 
thing new in the domestic economy of the Toorumptee ; for in this 
instance she had appropriated an old nest of the Crow. 
23. Micronisus sapivs, Gm. 
In modification of any former experience, I have now to record the 
occurrence of a slightly marked ege from a clutch of three. 
Five out of six nests which were taken in my presence this last 
summer were built on the parasitical shrub (Loranthus globosus 2) 
which grows to such perfection on mango trees. The branches of 
this so-called mistletoe radiate sidewards and upwards to a consider- 
able height above the parent tree, from a large excrescence or knob, 
thus forming, as it were, the outer structure of a ready made nest. 
Viewed from below the nest looks about the size of what the eom- 
mon Crow would build ; but on examining one I had cut down (the 
parasitical plant was four feet above the tree), it was clear that the 
nest itself was particularly small, and so clumsily made as to fall to 
pieces on being removed from the knob which supported it. A better 
situation for a nest than the centre of a clump of this parasite could 
hardly be conceived. 
*25. ACCIPITER VIRGATUs, Temm. 
On the 3rd of October last a Shikaree brought me a living Hawk, 
which he had just captured with bird-lime, and which is undoubtedly 
referable to this species. It is the first capture of this interesting 
bird that I have heard of in this part of the country. The person 
from whom I got it tells me that the Besrah is frequently trapped 
early in the winter. They certainly must pass through the plains on 
their southward migration, as Wallace gives it from Malacca, J ava, 
and Sumatra, and Hume has recently recorded it from the 
Andamans. 
Not wishing to be too confident of my own identification, I have 
waited till the acquisition of more examples, and the Opinion of 
ornithologists who had more experience than myself as regards 4. 
virgatus, could be brougbt to bear on the subject. A pair kindly 
sent to me by Mr. Mandelli, of Darjeeling (and in precisely the same 
plumage as my own), leaves no further room for any doubts. Mr. 
Hume, too, who expressed a wish to see the birds I called “4. vir- 
gatus,’ has returned them to me with an expression of opinion to the 
effect that he fully concurs with me in my identification. 
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