288 ROUGH LIST OF THE BIRDS OF WESTERN KHANDESH. 
found the slightest sign of its breeding. I have seen pairs 
very noisy in the cold weather, and in March I found a family 
of four or five at Koperlee on the Tapti ; the young were, however, 
quite strong on the wing, and they may have bred elsewhere. 
33.—Nisaetus fasciatus, Vieill. Bonelli’s Eagle. 
Rare; only noticed on twoor three occasions in Pimpalnir, 
Nizampur and Nandurbar. 
35.—Limnaetus cirrhatus,* Gm. The Crested Hawk 
Eagle. 
This Eagle is a permanent resident, and very common in the 
Akrani and Satpuras, and fairly so along the ghats near 
Kondabhari. I have also noticed it on several occasions along 
the spurs of hill in the Nandurbar taluka. I have never seen 
it in the plain country. I have found many of its nests in 
February, March and April. In Khandesh it seems almost 
invariably to fix on a high tree growing on the bank of 
one of the dried-up nullahs along the Satpuras. The only 
other nest I found was on a huge banyan or peepul close to a 
large village, but overlooking a dried-up tank (there was, how- 
ever, loads of jungle up to the very village walls). In no case 
have I found it building two years running in the same nest, 
and one generally finds two or three nests of this bird (one 
only occupied) within acouple of hundred yards. Mr. Vidal 
says that he found it shy in Rutnagherry, and that if its nest was 
visited it was sure to desert it. I certainly have not found this 
to be the case. The very first nest I found was in December, and 
though I had the tree climbed every three weeks till February, 
it did not desert. I took an egg from this nest early in March, 
and even then the birds hung about the nest and laid again on the 
22nd April. This second ege was, however, avery small 
specimen. Next year this pair of birds bred about 300 yards off 
on the bank of a dried-up nullah. 
38.—Circaetus gallicus,* Gm. The Common Serpent 
Eagle. 
Uncommon, but generally distributed in the cold weather. 
I have seen no sign of its breeding anywhere. 
39.—Spilornis cheela,* Zath. The Indian Harrier 
Eagle. 
Uncommon; and only noticed by me along the Satpuras 
and in West Nandurbar. Is probably a permanent resident, 
as a very richly-colored Eagle’s egg was brought to me in 
April taken from a nest along a running nullah in the heart 
