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1207. Hiera'etus fasciatus. — Bonelli's Eagle. On January 7th, 1912, when 

 duck shooting, I found an eagle's nest on a cotton tree. On sending a 

 man up, a large eagle, of a species unknown to me, flew off the nest and 

 the climber reporting two eggs, I pursued and shot the eagle, which 

 proved to be a line female of the abovenamed species. The bird measured 

 length 29'5 : tail 11 : wing 20-5 : tarsus nearly 4. The eggs, dirty white, 

 faintly blotched at the large end with pale yellowish brown, measuring 

 2-64 X 2-2 and 2-72 x 2-2. 



1255. Falco peregrinator—^YiBh.in'EsAcon. On April 15th, 1911,1 saw a 

 falcon go into a cleft in a sandstone cliff on the river bank, about 60 

 miles above Monywa. The cliff was of no great height, and by letting a 

 rope down from above, a man easily climbed up to the nest. He reported 

 three young birds which I left, in the hope that the birds would breed 

 again this year. Yesterday, March 7th, 1912, I again visited the spot and 

 had the pleasure of taking from the same hole two beautiful eggs which 

 proved to be about half set. With some compunction, I shot the male 

 bird, which arrived with a parrot (P. torguatus) in his claws. Whilst the 

 nest was being robbed, the female flew round screaming (she did the same 

 last year) ; but made no attempt to attack the man, and she returned to 

 the nest-hole as soon as we left. I much regretted shooting the male, as 

 it turned out that my identification was correct, and his death was 

 therefore unnecessary ; but as these falcons are by no means uncommon, 

 1 have considerable hopes that the female may find another mate, and 

 that more eggs may be forthcoming. There was no attempt at nest, the 

 eggs being deposited on the bare earth. They are much more richly 

 marked than the one described by Hume: the ground colour is pinkish,, 

 densely freckled all over with minute specks, and sparingly blotched at 

 the small end with small spots varying in colour from rusty to sepia, the 

 latter being less numerous than the former. The spots increase in size 

 towards the large end, where they coalesce to form a rust-coloured cap 

 speckled with sepia. The eggs measure about 2-lxl'5. 



1553. Anasiomus oscitans — ^The Open-Bill. 1 have just noticed that 

 this bird is put down by Blanford as being unknown in Burma except in 

 Aracan and Pegu. As a matter of fact, it is common enough on the jheels 

 of the Lower Chindwin, though I do not recollect seeing it in the Upper 

 Chindwin. 



CYRIL HOPWOOD, 



Monywa, U. Burma, 17^ March 1912. D. C. Forests. 



No. XXVIII.— BAIKAL OR CLUCKING TEAL (NETTION 

 FORMOSUM) SHOT IN ASSAM. 

 I am sending the Society the skin of a Baikal or Clucking Teal 

 which was shot near Sibsagar, Assam, in January or February 1910 by 

 Mr. Morton Eden. 



