4 NEOPHRON PERCNOPTKRUS. 



§ 3. T'^^o.— Tangier, 3 May, 1840. From M. Favier's Collec- 

 tion, 1847. 



O. W. tab. 1. fig. 5. 



Received from M. Favier, 21st February, 1847. There cannot be 

 much doubt now of the authenticity of these eggs. I saw one with 

 M. Lefevre in Paris in 1846, and another at Geneva in the same 

 year, both similar to these. The latter showed much of the ground- 

 colour, i.e. the white shell. The best-marked of the two specimens 

 under consideration is of a similar red, in the spots, to the other eggs. 

 I have had, further, a satisfactory assurance from M. Favier that 

 Aquila ncevia is not found on the Barbary coast. 



§ 4. One. — Tangier. From M. Favier's Collection, 1847. 

 o. w. tab. 1. fig. 1. 



I have had much doubt about this egg. Mr. Henry Milner says 

 it is exactly like his Osprey's taken in Scotland; it is also very like 

 Mr. Yarrell's egg of that bird. 



[This egg was bought of Mr. Williams with the one before-mentioned (§ 2). 

 Mr. WoUey is certainly right in saying that it resembles an Osprey's : indeed, 

 as far as I know, it might be taken for one ; but I can well understand, after 

 having now seen so many, it being that of a Neophron ; and Ospreys' eggs 

 must be less easy of access in North- West Africa than those of the Egj^tian 

 Vulture.] 



§ 5. One. — "Pyrenees, 1855." From M. Parzudaki's Collec- 

 tion, 1856. 



Sent to me with other eggs by M. Parzudaki, 28 March, 1856. 



§ 6. One. — Valley of the Medjerdah, near Souk Harras, Eastern 

 Atlas, 25 April, 1857. From Mr. O. Salvin's Collection. 



0. W. tab. 1. fig. 4. 



The Medjerdah is the river that flows out at Utica. This egg, 

 Mr. Salvin states, was taken in the upper part of its valley by a 

 Frenchman named Lafosse, a collector of minerals and such things. 



[Mr. Salvin's notes on the nidification of this species are published at length 

 in ' The Ibis,' vol. i. p. 180.] 



