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obvious reasons wliicli induce the wise Fox to abstain from plunder 

 near bis own eartb, and even the tiger, (according to bis neigbbours), 

 to forage far abroad, on pain of denunciation to tbe '' Sabe bolk," 

 wbicb I bave known to follow a breacb of tbis tacit entente cordiale. 



I bave seen no region so ricb in Eagles as tbat visible from tbe 

 beigbts of Raigarb. Tbe wide plain of Mangaum to tbe Nortb- 

 West, is a cbosen baunt of tbe larger Serpent Eagle, Circacus 

 Oallicus ; and tbe Imperial Eagle bunts tbe low bills, covered witb 

 scanty jungle and brusbwood, wbicb abound on its skirts. Wbere 

 tbere are large evergreen trees sucb as Mangos along tbe 

 numerous streams, you find tbe Crested Serpent Eagle, Spilornis 

 cheela, tbe most beautifully marked of our birds of prey wben in 

 full featber. Tbe first two prefer to percb on bare trees, 8'pilornis 

 likes a tbick tree, and sits on a big limb, in good sbade, but not 

 amongst tbe bougbs and twigs, until startled ; wben be goes straigbt 

 off, perbaps from over your bead, a startling object if you bave 

 not seen bim, nor be you. I bave sbot one of tbese eagles in sucb a 

 position witb a pistol, and wore bis ocellated game-like featbers for 

 many a day, in " jactance" over tbe feat. 



Tbis bappened in tbick forest, in tbe Sukeli pass, wbere be was, I 

 tbink, a little off bis beat and out of bis reckoning, tbougb not 

 exclusively a bird of tbe open. Tbe next, and tbe cbaracteristic 

 eagle of tbe immediate neigbbourbood of Raigarb, is tbe Crested 

 Hawk Eagle of Jerdon {Liynncetus Cristatellus) . Tbe Latin -name 

 is bad, as be does not frequent " Zimnai" ; and I tbink Mr. Murray 

 calls bim Cirrhcetus, wbicb is better. We must await Mr. Blan- 

 ford's long-promised volume. I myself like to call tbis bird tbe 

 Wood-Eagle, as tbe forest is bis especial domain. He can break 

 tbrougb tbe brancbes after prey witb the rusb of a charging beast, 

 and wben be sees you walk up to one side of his tree, long before you 

 bave distinguished bis grey form from the surrounding bougbs, be 

 has shifted bis perch to tbe far side as easily as a green pigeon or 

 parrot would. 



The Grrey-backed Sea-Eagle comes up the estuaries to Mbad, but 

 I don't tbink he often rises high enough above them to see tbe Hill 

 itself. The Osprey forages over the Kal to its very foot ; and every- 

 where in the open are tbe Laggar (our particular falcon here), the 



