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when that object appears, the sap rises and remains till the moon has waned. 



If bamboos are cut at this time they are certain to go to powder within 18 



months ; and if used immediately after felling for spears, &c, they usually 



break. Bamboos cut on dark nights will keep indefinitely, and seldom break. 



Also bamboos cut in the daylight at any time of the month usually go to 



powder in three or four years. 



E. BARTON-WRIGHT, 



Asst. Manager to the Lessees, Sivaganja Zemindary. 



Sivaganja Zemindary, 



SlVAGANJI P. O., 



Madura District, 

 27th January 1907. 

 [Mr. E. P. Stebbing writes in reference to the above note : — " This appears 

 to be merely a recapitulation of the opinions or theories or superstitions, I 

 scarce know which to call them at present. I should be delighted to hear 

 whether Mr, Barton Wright has ever carried out a series of experiments on 

 the lines laid down in my paper* to prove that the opinions commonly held on 

 the subject have really a foundation to rest upon. It is useless attempting 

 to solve what appears a most curious problem until we have authoritative 

 proof, based upon carefully carried out experiments, that a scientific problem 

 exists which requires solution." — Eds. ] 



No. XXI —A REMARKABLE TREE. 



I regret that in my note on page 527 of this volume under the above 

 heading, I have given the wrong botanical name. The tree is not Michelia 

 champaca, but Michelia nilgirica, Zenk. 



Until to-day I had not seen the flowers, and was misled by statements of 

 others and by the vernacular name given in the list of trees and shrubs of 

 the Madras Presidency. I secured the flowers to-day, and discovered my error. 



C. E. C. FISCHER. 

 Camp Doddasanipagai, 



I7*h February 1907. 



No. XXII— THE NESTING OF THE RUFOUS-BELLIED HAWK- 

 EAGLE (LOPROTRIORCH1S K1ENERI). 



I am sending for identification the skin of a bird that I take to be the 

 Rufous-bellied Hawk-Eagle (JLophotriorchis hieneri). As Dr. Blanford in the 

 " Fauna of British India, Birds, Vol. III.," mentions the nidification as being 

 unknown, I give particulars of how I obtained the bird. I discovered the 

 nest on the Anamallai Hills in December last (1906). It contained one 

 young bird, which I procured and reared successfully until it was, as you will 

 perceive, nearly full fledged, intending to train it, if possible, for hawking hares, 

 but, unluckily, it broke its leg in some mysterious way and to my great regret 



* [This paper owing to Mr. Stebbing's absence in England, cannot appear in this 

 number but it is hope! will be published in No, 1 of Vol. XVII I. — Eds,] 



