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lowered close to it. She then departed and did not return until 
the whole party had assembled in the valley, some 300 ft. below. 
So much for the tales of Bearded Vultures attacking those who 
molest their eggs or young! 
As a set-off to my bad fortune in the photographic business 
on this memorable occasion, | have the gratification to record that, 
thanks to the skill of one of the staff at the British Museum of 
Natural History, the fragments of the broken ege were successfully 
pieced together, with the result that I am now the proud possessor 
of a pair of beautifully-coloured eggs of the Bearded Vulture, 
which find a fitting’ resting-place in my collection in the centre 
of a tray containing sundry pairs of the handsomely-marked eggs 
of the Neophron ! 
THe Enp. 
