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and rufous shades, others have a white ground with reddish-brown 
blotches. Sometimes one egg will be strongly marked with brown 
and the other speckled and marbled with pale purplish markings. 
The young are almost naked when first ‘hatched out, a sparse 
"NEOPHRON’S NEST WITH DEAD RAT IN T.ARDER. 
growth of very long white down only partially concealing their 
skin. Young birds when fully fledged are dark brown all over 
and at this period of their existence, owing to their wedge-shaped 
tail have much the appearance of Bearded Vultures on the wing, 
of course they are only half as large but in the absence of other 
