98 Lieut. -Col. C. Swinhoe on the 



runs within a few miles of the entire distanee between Charaan 

 and Kandahar. The climate of the country, however, apart 

 from the dust-storms, is every thing that man could desire. 

 At Quetta the thermometer in the winter sometimes for a 

 few days falls below zero ; otherwise it is never very cold nor 

 very hot. At Kandahar, where it is hotter, you get about six 

 weeks' heat dm'ing summer; but the nights are always cool; 

 and the rest of the year is very pleasant, the winter especially 

 so, the thermometer in the open air ranging from 40° to 60°, 

 and very seldom falling to freezing-point. 



1. VuLTUR MONAcnus, Linu. 



Common at Sibi and some parts of the Bolan ; did not see 

 this Vulture further west. Col. St. John, however, had a tame 

 young one at Kandahar, supposed to have been taken in the 

 Girisk district. 



2. Gyps tulvescens, Hume. 



To be found everywhere between Sibi and Kandahar. In 

 March and April at Kandahar in large numbers in company 

 with another Vulture, which I did not identify. In ordinary 

 times Vultures are said to be scarce in South Afghanistan ; 

 and when our troops first entered the country the carcasses of 

 transport animals used to lie about for days with scarcely a 

 Vulture near them ; but latterly they gathered all along the 

 line of communication, and, especially at Kandahar, in very 

 large numbers. 



3. Neophron percnopterus (Linn.). 

 Kandahar, 1 ? , 11,4,81 ; Do., 1 ? , 12,4,81. 

 Common everywhere. 



4. Gypaetus barbatus (Linn.). 



To be found on all the mountains throughout the country. 



5. Falco jugger, J. E. Gr. 



One shot by Dr. Duke at Nal, 2,5,77. One seen near 

 Charaan in the beginning of May 1881. 



6. Falco babylonicus, Guru. 



Shot by Col. St. John in the neighbourhood of Kandahar. 



