90 SHORT-TOED EAGLE. 
in which opinion he is corroborated by M. Roux, who — 
says that it builds “sometimes in high trees, and some- 
times very near the ground.” M. Tyzenhauz says that 
it builds only on high trees in old forests, and never 
on the ground. ; 
The eggs, two or three in number, are of a dirty 
white or greyish, often slightly tinged with blue, and 
without spots——(Degland.) 
M. Meyer says that the eggs are three, of a grey 
slate-colour, with some spots of a light brown; but M. 
Temminck remarks upon this, that he has never seen 
eggs of this bird so dark a grey, and if they were, the 
light brown spots would not be visible, as these spots 
are always darker than the ground colour. M. Degland 
says that he possesses an egg given him by M. Bouteille, 
which is of a pure white, and rather rough to the 
touch; that its authenticity cannot be doubted, for the 
female was taken with it. 
In the midst of so much discrepancy of opinion, it 
is with much pleasure I introduce the remarks of M. 
Mogquin-Tandon, which accompanied the drawing from 
which our figure was taken, kindly sent by him, and 
which I think quite clears up the matter:— 
“This egg was given me some years ago by Degland, 
who had received it from M. Bouteille; the female was 
taken with the egg. The great diameter of this egg is 
six cents and a half, (two inches and five-eighths,) and 
the little diameter four cents and a half, (one inch and 
seven eighths.) The shell is dull, and rough to the 
touch. Tint pale azure white, without spots. Schinz’s 
figure, pl. 31, fig. 1, is rather too large, and perhaps 
not sufficiently azured. That of Thienemann, pl. 11, 
fig. 2, is much too small and too blue; it is, I think, 
the egg of F. palumbarius, (vide “Revue de Zoologie.”) 
