2 Mr. C. G. Dariford 07i the 



end of January. On the 2nd February a nest containing two 

 eggs was found near Nimroun. In its lining were a good 

 many rags^ and the rather ghastly item of a lock of woman^s 

 hair. Another nest, with a single fresh egg, was taken quite 

 late in the same month. The nest is generally placed in a 

 hollow on the face of a high cliff. In one angle of the ravine 

 close to Zebil, four nests were found pretty close together. 

 Three of these Nizam Ali, a splended rock-climber, succeeded 

 in reaching; but they all turned out to be old, and used 

 merely as charnel-houses and larders, being crammed with 

 bones. The remaining nest, in which the birds were evi- 

 dently breeding, defied all attempts to reach it ; and no rope 

 of sufficient length being procurable, we had very reluctantly 

 to give it up. 



The largest specimen shot was a female, which weighed 

 11 lb., the total length being 49 inches, and the wing-spread 

 106| inches. The largest male killed weighed about the same, 

 its total length being 44 inches, and the wing-spread 102. 

 Adult females seem to be rather more rust-coloured in the 

 throat and underparts than the males. This species was also 

 seen in the north part of the country, but rarely. 



2. VuLTUR MONACHUs, L. Kara kartal (Black Vulture). 

 A single pair, which appeared at Zebil on the 14th Feb., 



and remained stationary, were the only birds of this kind 

 observed. 



3. Gyps fulvus (Gmel.). Kartal (Vulture). 



Common everywhere. In the cliffs about Zebil they nested 

 in the latter end of February and the beginning of March. 

 We constantly watched them carrying sticks and branches 

 for the construction of their nests. A pair killed weighed 

 21 lb. and 19 lb. respectively. The former was a female, 

 and measured 105 inches across the wings, and had a total 

 length of 45 inches. 



4. Neophron percnopterus (L.). Ak Baba (White 

 father) . 



Common. The first of these birds arrived at Anascua 

 April 4th, and were quickly followed by larger instalments 



