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affluents, and along the larger streams which drain the jungly 

 l)ortions of the Mundlah and Balaghat districts ; on one of these 

 latter streams Mr. E. Thompson found a nest in May, built on the 

 top of a large sal tree, and tools thence a young bird, which hslong 

 kept in confinement. 



On the 17th May I found a nest containing two eggs, just on 

 <he point of hatching, on a huge Terminalia tree, in the kSikhim 

 Terai, a few miles from Silligoree. The nest was a mere circular 

 pad of sticks, some 2 feet by 18 inches, and fully 6 inches in depth, 

 with a slight depression towards the centre, strewed over with 

 withered leaves. 



My friend Colonel G. F. L. Marshall furnishes me with the 

 following note on the nidification of this species : — " Builds in 

 the Saharunpoor district in the end of May and beginning of June. 

 The nest is commenced about the end of April, and the young are 

 hatched by the middle of .1 une. 



" The nest is placed in a fork near the top of a large tree, about 

 35 or 40 feet from the ground. All that 1 have found have been 

 in the line of trees along the bank of the Eastern Jumna Canal, 

 on the outside one farthest from the water, and always in sheesum 

 trees. I found four nests, one with young (on the 10th June), 

 and three with eggs on the i;2nd of May and 3rd and 11th of 

 June. All the eggs were hard-set. The nest is a large circular 

 platform-like structure of sticks, with a few dead leaves in the 

 egg-receptacle, but no other lining. I noticed no remains of food 

 in any of them. The diameter of the whole nest was about 20 

 inches, and the interior depth about 2 inches. I have never found 

 more than one egg in any nest. The egg now before me is a per- 

 fect, but very blunt oval; of a slightly yellowish-white ground, 

 somewhat profusely spotted and blotched with rather faint yel- 

 lowish brown, and a pale washed-out purplish brown, which latter 

 colour greatly predominates ; the egg is absolutely glossless." 



An egg which I owe to Colonel Marshall's kindness is a broad 

 oval in shape, and has a greyish-white ground, richly blotched and 

 spotted with pale purple. This egg has no gloss, and \Then held 

 up against the light, the shell, as in all those of these Eagles, is a 

 bright sea-green. 



Other eggs which J have obtained or seen have been less richly 

 marked, but varied little in size or shape. As a rule, they seem 

 to be more richly marked than those of A. vindhicma. 



The five eggs that I have measured have varied from 2'5 to 2'8 

 inches in length, and from 1*94 to 2'2 inches in breadth. 



Nisaetus fasciatus (Yieill.). BonelU's Eagle. 



Nisaetus bonelli (Temm.), Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 67. 



Pseudaetus honellii {Temm.), Hume, Rotigh Draft N. Sf E. no. S3. 



Bonelli's Eagle lays in the plains in the latter half of December 

 and in January ; but in the Himalaj'as it sometimes lays, I believe, 



