260 



falconidj:. 



An egg of the Mexican Black Buzzard in the Collection is almost 

 elliptical in shape, fairly smooth, and without gloss. It is white, 

 smeared and otherwise marked all over with two or three shades of 

 rufous and with pale purplish grey. It measures 2'2 by 1-8. 



1. 



San Gerouimo, Guatemala, 

 ■29th April (E. Owen). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sub-Faniilv GYPAETINtE. 



Genus GYPAETUS. Storr. 



Gjrpaetus barbatus (Linn.). 



Gvppetus barbatus, Thien. Fortpflcmz. yes. Vog. tab. liii. fig. 1 (1845-54); 

 Baedeker, Eier Fur. Vriff. tab. y. fig. 3," tab. 57. fig. 1 (1855-6.3): 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 176; Free, Birds Fur. i. p. 1l>, pi. — (1866) ; 

 t. c. 2nd ed. i. p. 12, pi. — (1875); Dresser, Birds Fur. v. p. 401 

 (1872) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 228 (1874) ; Oates ed. Hume, 

 Nests iV Eygs Ind. Birds, iii. p. 127 (1890) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. 

 p. 260 (1899). 



The eggs of the Liimmergeier, or Bearded Vulture, are of an ellip- 

 tical or spheroidal shape. The shell is rough in texture, granulated 

 and without gloss. They are often of a uniform colour varying from 

 rusty yellow to a deep orange-brown, but some are rusty yellow, 

 blotched and streaked with dull reddish and purplish brown, and 

 others are cream-colour mottled with dull purple and grey. They 

 measure from 3 to 3'6 in length, and from 2-55 to 2"75 in breadth. 



South Europe. 



Spanish Pyrenees. 



Sierra Nevada, Spain, 1st Feb. 



Acrtrimnia, Greece, 14tli Jan. 



( T. Kriiper). 

 Acarnania, Feb. [T. K.). 

 Algeria, Jan. (O. Salvin). 

 Kabylia, Algeria, Feb. [Loche : 



Tristram Coll.). 

 Kabylia {Loche: Tristram Coll.). 

 Bokhari, Algeria, Jan. {Loche .- 



Tristram Coll.). 

 Dhurmsala, Himalayas, 4th Dec. 



(C. R. Cock). 

 Dhurmsala, 2nd Jan. {C. R. C). 

 Dhurmsala, 10th Feb. {C.R.C.). 



Old Collection. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



