24 Major II. 11. Hariugton on the 



29tli of April, 1911^ while out birds'-nesting at Wetwuri, near 

 Maymyo_, I heard a pair of birds calling, and evidently very 

 excited. On going in the direction we spotted a pair of 

 Hawks flying round a clump of tall trees, on the banlc of 

 the river, below which were a troop of monkeys, who seemed 

 to be the cause of all the trouble, as they made off on our 

 approach ; the birds then quieted down, one flying into the 

 trees and settling on a nest. This was quite a small affair, 

 placed at the end of a long branch, about a hundred feet up. 

 I sent my Burmans to climb the tree and investigate ; they 

 were unable to reach the nest on account of the slenderuess of 

 the branch, but managed to get above and reported two eggs. 



The only plan seemed to be to build up a ladder from 

 below. We accordingly returned to the village to make 

 arrangements, and soon after the men came back bringing 

 a thin bamboo about 12 feet in length and a piece of black 

 sticky beeswax ; they then proceeded to demonstrate their 

 plan, which was to extract the eggs with the aid of the wax 

 at the end of the bamboo. They practised several times 

 on a hen^s egg, which they managed to pick up every time, 

 and as this seemed to work all right, and was the easiest way 

 of getting the eggs, we decided to adopt it. We then made 

 a sort of lauding net out of a cap fixed at the end of another 

 biimboo, the idea being to hold tlie cap at the edge of the 

 nest, and then to pick up the eggs with the aid of the wax 

 at the end of another bamboo, and so place them in the cap. 

 After a good deal of practice on the hen^s egg the men 

 started up the tree^ two getting out as far as they could 

 along the branchy one holding the cap in position at the 

 edge of the nest, while the other extracted the eggs one 

 at a time and placed them in it. They were completely 

 successful in bringing down both eggs safely. 



The nest seemed very small from below, and according to 

 the men was composed entirely of twigs, lined with green 

 leaves 



The eggs, which were incubated, are a dull spotless chalky 

 white, and measure : — 1*5 x 1"3 and r48 x 1'25. 



