36 Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 



of hundreds I used to see round Pretoria shortly after the 

 Boer war. The Griffon Vulture is, however, a tolerably 

 common resident, although I do not remember seeing more 

 than about twenty together. It nests in suitable localities in 

 both ranges of mountains and also on the cliff's of the Akrotiri 

 promontory. It breeds early in the year, and eggs which 

 Horsbrugh and I obtained on the 21st and 31st of March, 

 1909, in the Kyrenia range, were very much incubated. We 

 did not find many eyries nor did we see more than half a dozen 

 pairs in the few miles of mountain which we worked : the 

 nests each contained only one egg and were inaccessible to us 

 without a rope, but fortune favoured us with a native guide — 

 one Charilaou, of a village near Buffavento — whose astonishing 

 climbingperformances, after he had doffed his huge high boots, 

 filled us with mixed feelings of envy, admiration and terror. 

 However Mr. Michel 1, the Commissioner of Limassol, tells me 

 he has taken eggs in the southern range from quite easy sites. 

 The southern sea cliffs, again, where Lord Lilford and 

 Guillemard found the bird at home, would require a rope. 

 Guillcmard obtained three young in early May from the 

 eastern part of the Kyrenia hills, and also brought back an 

 egg from the same range. In the summer mouths a few birds 

 frequent the neighbourhood of the cam}) on Troodos, and 

 wherever the traveller may be in the island, on a bright day 

 he can usually see high up in the sky one of these great 

 birds majestically soaring and watching for a carcase. 



712. Vultur monachus Linn. 



The Black Vulture was thought by Lord Lilford, who 

 did not meet with the species himself, to be only an occasional 

 visitor from Asia Minor. It has not hitherto been very 

 frequently recorded from the island. An immature specimen 

 was sent, in the spring of 1880, from Cyprus to the London 

 Zoological Gardens by Capt. Alexander, R.E., and lived there 

 for some years. 



Guillemard came across an old, and a full grown young 

 bird at Morphou and shot the latter, but it is not surprising 

 to hear that its enormous bulk and other difficulties familiar 



