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TULITJRID^. 



2. Castilla, lltli April {H. S.). 



3. Castilla, 17th April (i7. ,S.). 



2. CastUla, 20tli April [H. S.). 



3. Castilla, 21st April (H. S.). 

 Prov. of Madrid, lOtli April {Lord 



Lilford). 

 ProT. of Madrid, 20th April {H. 



Saunders). 

 Avila, west of Madrid, April (Lord 



Lilford). 

 Avila, April {Lord Lilford). 

 Attica, Greece, April [T. Kriiper). 

 Dobrudscha, April. 

 Bulgaria, 20th April (R. J. Elu-es). 

 Magdala, Sea of Galilee, Palestine, 



27th Feb. (//. B. Tristram). 

 El Ivantara, Algeria ( Tristram Coll.). 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Genus GYPS, Suvigny. 



The eggs of the Griffon Vultures arc so much of the same type 

 that it is not necessary to describe those of each species separately. 



The majority are of an elliptical shape, others are broad ovals. 

 The shell is minutely granulated and pitted and is almost devoid of 

 gloss. 



Normally they are plain white or yellowish white, but in every 

 large series a few specimens may be found marked with pale rufous 

 or yellowish-brown spots and small blotches at one end or, more 

 rarely, over the whole shell. 



Gyps fulvus (Gm.)., 



Vultur fulvus, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. Iv. tig. 2 (1845-54) ; 



JLewitsoii, Egis of Brit. Birds, i. p. 1, pi. i. (1856); Seebohm, Brit. 



Birds, i. p. 4,' pi. 1 (1883) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 1, pi. 1. fig. 3 



(1896). 

 Gvps fulvus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 17. fig. 1 (1855-63) ; Salvin, 

 ' Ibis, 1859, p. 178; Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 279, 1865, p. 246; 



Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 56 ; S/iariJe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 5 (1874) ; 



Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 373 (1879) ; Irbg, Orn. Sir. Gibr. 2nd ed. 



p. 147 (1895) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 242 (1899). 

 A'ultur fulvus occidentalis, Heugl. Orn. N. O.-Afr. i. pt. i. p. 3 (1859). 

 Gyps hispanioleusis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 6 (1874). 



The eggs of the Griffon Vulture vary from 3-5 to 3-95 in length, 

 and froQi 2-5 to 2-85 in breadth. 



2. Near Gibraltar, Feb. [L. H. Irby). 



1. Spain, 12th Feb. 



1. Near Malaga, Spain (L. H. Irby). 



1. Alora, near Malaga {H. Saunders). 



I. Near Alora, March {H. S.). 



1. Chorro, west of Madrid, 3rd April 



(H. S.). 

 1. Avila, west of Madrid, 6th April 



(H. S.). 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Miss E. Mackenzie [P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



