to ' The Birds of India.' 235 



greater part of tlie North-west Provinces^ becoming more common 

 in the country north-west of Delhi in the cold weather. It 

 breeds, occasionally at all events, on trees in the outer ranges of 

 the Elimalayas. One killed near Sii-sa was 44 inches long; 

 extent of wings 9 feet 2 inches ; wing 32 inches. The cere and 

 naked parts of the face ashy-bluish or pale mauve, the legs 

 fleshy-white. 



3. Gyps fulvus. 



Mr. Hume^ considers that he has two species of Gyps neither 

 of which is true G. fulvus. The Himalayan bird he calls G. 

 himalayensis; but though he describes it, he does not particularize 

 the points in which it differs from G. fulvus. 



The other species, which is as large, occurs in the plains of 

 the extreme North-west Provinces and Punjab, and is essentially 

 a Vulture of the desert. It breeds in trees, laying, as usual, one 

 white egg. This he calls G. fulvescens, and describes both with 

 full measurements, /. c. 



I saw Mr. Hume^s specimens, but I can add nothing to his 

 observations, except that the Vulture which I gave as V. indicus 

 in my original "Catalogue of Birds of the Peninsula of India^f 

 is probably the same as his G. fulvescens, and not G. indicus, 

 and that it is also the V. indicus of Adams. 



Mr. Gurney says that he considers G. himalayensis may be 

 new, but that G. fulvescens is apparently young G. fulvus. The 

 former species differs from G. fulvus by having the fourth primary 

 the longest. 



4. Gyps indicus. 



I have probably overstated the extreme measurements of this 

 Vulture, as suggested by Mr. Hume, who gives 40 inches as the 

 greatest length of any examined by him, with an expanse of 

 92 and wing 23 i. 



5. Gyps bengalensis. 



I found this Vulture pairing in December in the Bijnoor 

 district. A pair had their nest in a large tree under which my 



* My Scrap-book, or Rough Notes on liidiau Oruitliology, i. p, \2. 

 t Madras Journal, 1839, et scq. 



