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The nest was an enormous mass of sticks, and was lined vvith smaller 

 sticks, and strips of juniper bark, with a few feathers ; the material of the 

 nest would have filled a large cart, the measurements being approximately 

 3 feet thick at least, and 7 feet across the top, the latter being very nearly 

 flat. The young bird was about the size of a pigeon and covered with black 

 down. The nest and surroundings had an extremely strong and unpleasant 

 musky smell. While I was at the nest the old birds made no attempt to 

 molest me but circled about high in the air above me. 



After I had come down from the nest, one of the Pathans, who was with 

 me, said that he knew of a Lammergeyer's nest further up the same ravine ; 

 but as it was some way off , I sent him and another man to see if there was 

 any chance of getting at it, arranging to meet them later on. When I did 

 meet them I found that on the way they had found another nest 

 of the Cinereous vulture, also on a juniper tree, and that after some 

 difficultjr, owing to the tree being placed in an extremely awkward 

 position, half up a cliff, they had managed to get to it ; and brought 

 me one egg from it. The egg was of the usual type, white with rusty 

 red markings all over it, thicker at the large end : these markings were 

 very lightly laid on, and could easily be rubbed off" with a wet finger. The 

 egg was rather hard set. The man who climbed to the nest reported to me 

 that the bird had come very close to him ; but I think like all Pathans he 

 was only making the most of his exploit. 



Not long after the foregoing account was written, at the beginning of 

 May, I was out on a shooting trip on the same hiU, and found two more 

 nests of this vulture; they were both sitviated in similar positions to that 

 already described, at the extreme tops of large juniper trees growing on 

 the hill side in solitary places, about 8,500 feet above the sea; the first nest 

 had an egg in it, a very finely coloured one, but it was so hard set that I 

 could hear the young bird chirping inside it, so I left it; the other had a 

 young bird in it, I should judge about 10 days old. 



T. E. MARSHALL, Major, r.e. 

 QuETTA, lia iJf«y 1911. 



No. XXVIL— UNCOMMON BIFtDS IN BUEMA. 



It will be of interest to all ornithologists, but especially those in Burma, 

 to record that on the 29th of May last I procured at " Thandoung, " 

 situated on the Karen Hills, about 30 miles East of Tounghoo, elevation 

 about 4,000 feet, a specimen of 



The Rufous-belled Hawk Eagle, Lophotriorchis kieneri, No. 1209, F. B. I. — 

 I shot this bird just after it had swooped and carried off' one of a party of 

 green pigeons I had been watching feeding on a fruit tree in some heavy 

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