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Affrr finishing with (he Falcons, I l\valked to a nvigh- 
bniiring tri'c, where the pair of Black-winged Kiles {Elnnus 
cacrula^s) were nesting, and passed on the way a fine King 
Vulture {Otogj/ps cah^us) and an Egyptian Vulture (Nro- 
phron pvrrnoptcrus) busily engaged with a dead dog. 
The Kite's nest was situated on the end of a hori- 
zontal bough of a Kikur tree, standing alone in cultivation ; 
the nest, which was about 20 feet from the ground, was 
A mere mass of large pieces of an evergreen shrub-like 
plant, which is common on this sandy soil. This straggling 
mass of material was heaped in a most careless fashion on 
the bough, and roughly hollowed to form a nest, but in 
spite of the mass of material one could see through the 
bottom of the nest, which was quite unlined, and it is 
difficult to see why the efigs did not fall through. The 
whole nest gave one more tlie impression of an armful of 
stuff weeded out by a Zaminda and flung up into the 
bough to be out of the way, than the nest of a Raptor. 
There were three well -feathered young birds standing 
in the nest, and they violently objected to the intrusion— - 
what time the adult kept stooping at my head — keepine up a 
harsh screaming, and throwing themselves on their backs 
to resist with beak and claw. Two of these I took for 
the purpose of rearing as pets. 
When 1 add that before we started out my Falcon 
had unsuccessfuUj' tried to net an adult tiercel Peregrine, 
and that after our return a pair of Eagles were soaring 
above my bungalow, I think the whole affords a good 
example of the wonderfiil abundance of Raptorial birds in 
these parts . 
Two incubated eggs in a nest of the Indian Ring 
Dove {Turtiir risorius). 
October 17. — Two flocks of Sociable Lapwings (Chclfu.iin rjrpgaria) 
passed over near my bungalow in the early morning ; these 
were the first noted this winter ; the species is a fairly 
abundant winter visitor to these parts, and is found in 
flocks which feed on waste land, or on the fields ; it is 
verj' partial to a light sandy soil and seldom frequents 
water . 
On a flooded field three Little Sing Plovers (j^gialUis 
dvbia) were feeding in company with a large number of 
Wagtails of the White and Yellow types. 
Two Pale Brown Shrikes (Lanius isahcllinns) were 
the first seen this winter. Two Blue-throats, Two Sand 
Martins (Cotile sp. ?), and a Honey Buzzard (Pernis rris- 
tatus) seen. 
October 19. — When out hawking in the early morning I lost a beautiful 
little Barbary Falcon (Faico barbarus) in a manner that 
