NEOPHRONINZ. if 
single egg, or a single nestling, in a nest; this would seem con- 
clusive, but others state that they lay one or two eggs. 
The color of the egg is white, with a greenish tinge, and is 
generally much discolored ; they are often spotted and blotched, 
with various shades of reddish-brown. The texture is moderately 
fine, the shell thick and strong, and the lining a deep green. 
They vary much in size and shape, some being moderately long 
ovals, while others are nearly spherical. They average 3°26 
inches in length by 2°42 in breadth. 
Scs-FrAmMity, Neophronine. 
Bill lengthened, slender, straight, hooked suddenly at the tip ; 
cere very long, occupying nearly two-thirds of the whole bill; 
nostrils longitudinal, nearly in the middle of the bill; part of 
the head and face naked; neck with acuminated feathers ; wings 
ample, pointed, the third quill longest ; tail moderate, wedge- 
shaped, of twelve or fourteen feathers; legs moderate, toes much 
united at base by membrane. 
Genus, Neophron, Sav. 
The characters are the same as those of the sub-family. 
Neophron ginginianus, Lath. 
6.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 12; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 442; Deccan and South Mahratta 
country ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 369; Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 64; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; 
Ibis, 1885, p. 54; Hume’s Scrap Book, p. 31. 
THE WHITE SCAVENGER VULTURE. 
Length, 26 to 29; wing, 19; tail, 9 to 10; tarsus, 3; bill from 
gape, 2°5. 
Bill horny-brown; cere and face turmeric-yellow;  irides 
reddish-brown ; legs and feet yellowish-white. 
Adult: yellowish or creamy-white ; quills black; neck feathers 
long, lanceolate, and tinged rusty ; secondaries dark brown, ashy- 
white at base. 
The young bird has the plumage dirty-brown, with the quills 
blackish-brown ; the back and rump albescent or tawny; the 
inner edge of the secondaries and of some of the primaries 
cinereous; the nude parts of head and cere greyish; feet cine- 
reous. 
Gypaetine. 
In an intermediate stage the birds are mottled-brown and 
white. 
The White Scavenger Vulture is another very common species, 
and is found throughout the whole district; it breeds during 
March and April, generally on trees but occasionally on rocky 
