Download or read book The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Vol. 2 written by Allan Octavian Hume and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Vol. 2: With Four Portraits Dr. Scully informs us that the Spotted Flycatcher breeds in Gilgit in the pine-forests, at elevations over 8000 feet. Major Wardlaw Ramsay, writing of Afghanistan, says I found the nest on the 3rd June, high up on a hill-side, at about 8000 feet. It was Situated in the lowest fork of an edible pine (pinus gerardiana), about six feet from the ground. The nest was composed of shreds of the bark of the juniper - tree, without any lining except a few feathers, and contained four eggs, quite fresh, pale green, profusely freckled with light brown, especially to wards the thick end. The position of this nest was rather unusual but another I found was in a crevice of a ragged juniper-stump. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.