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were females, or what ? I did not inquire whether the egg might not 

 possibly be a hybrid; but no one suggested it was so. It was 

 cracked when I first saw it at the keeper's house. It was quite fresh 

 when I blew it, and the contents had a musky taste. Lady Cust has 

 presented an egg of this bird to the Liverpool Museum, no doubt 

 fi'om the same quarter. A few days before I went to Liverpool I 

 had written to M. Auguste Lefevre, of Paris, to bespeak four eggs of 

 the Griflbn Vulture. 



^ 18. O/w.—From M. Lefevre's Collection, through Mr. H. F. 

 Walter. 



§ 19. T^/^o.— Pyrenees (?), 1856. From M. Parzudaki's Col- 

 lection, 1856. 



Taken, as it seems, this year. M. Parzudaki told me how that the 

 first season he offered large prices for a few, then there came more, 

 till this year he had a great many. 



§ 20. One.—Kei Gh'tar, Eastern Atlas, 14 April, 1857. From 

 Mr. 0. Salvin's Collection. 



From a cliff facing the north at Kef Gh'tar, long. 5° 20' E. of 

 Paris, lat. 36° 15' N., near Ras el Alia, marked in the map of the 

 province of Constantine, published by the French Government in 

 1854. Mr. Salvin shot a bird near this rock, and states that this 

 species hardly ever lays more than one egg, a single exception only 

 occurring to his knowledge. The nests, some six hundred feet above 

 the river, are about the middle of the perpendicular part of the cliff, 

 and built of sticks. The birds sit hard, and soon come back to their 

 nests. 



[Mr. Salvin's notes respecting the nesting of this species a republished in 

 'The Ibis,' vol. i. p. 178.] 



[§21. One. — Balkan Mountains (?). From Lord Lilford's Col- 

 lection, 1855.] 



[§ 22. One. — Gala el Hamara, Eastern Atlas, 15 April, 1857. 

 From Mr. W. H. Simpson's Collection. 



Brought from Algeria hy ^Ir. Simpson.] 



