8 GYPAETIN A. 
cliffs, old buildings, and such like places. It makes a large nest 
of twigs, lined with old rags and rubbish; straggling, if built 
on a cliff or a building—rather more compact if on a tree. In 
the latter situation, the nest is generally placed at the junction 
of a large limb with the trunk, but sometimes on a horizontal 
branch, very rarely in a fork. The eggs, two in number, are 
very handsome; they are somewhat chalky in texture, greyish- 
white in color, richly blotched and clouded with deep brownish- 
red. They vary much in shape, size and color. 
They average 2°6 inches in length by 1:98 in breadth. 
Sus-FaMILy, Gypaetine, Bonn & Gray. 
Bill strong, lengthened, compressed, straight; upper man- 
dible ascending in front of cere, then curved, with the tip 
much hooked ; nostrils oval, vertical, covered with dense rigid 
recumbent bristles; lower mandible with a beard, or tuft of 
rigid setaceous bristles directed forward ; head closely feathered ; 
wings very long, the first quill rather shorter than the second, 
the third longest ; feet short, stout; the tarsus hirsute to the 
toes; the thigh-coverts lengthened ; the three front toes slightly 
united by membrane, middle-toe very long, hind-toe short ; 
claws strong, moderately curved ; tail cuneate, long. 
Genus, Gypaetus, Storr. 
The characters are the same as those of the sub-family. 
Gypaetus barbatus, Lun. 
7.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 12; Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 64; Hume’s Scrap Book, p. 35. 
THE LAMMERGEYER. 
Length, 44 to 49; expanse, 99to 110; wing 30 to 34; tail, 
21 to 25; tarsus, 3:9 to 47; bill from gape, 4 to 4°7. 
Bill bluish-horny, dusky at tip; irides pale-orange or straw 
color; sclerotic membrane blood-red; feet plumbeous; claws 
black. 
Head whitish, with dark stripes, tinged rufous; cheek-stripe 
and supercilium black ; feathers of the nape lengthened, creamy- 
white, tinged with bright tawny; upper parts black; 
the back and rump paler, with white shafts, and the coverts 
with white streaks; greater-coverts, wing and tail ashy-black, 
with darker edges and white shafts to the feathers ; beneath dull 
orange or ferruginous, with a more or less marked black pectoral 
collar (not always present), paling below the breast, and becom- 
ing albescent or nearly white on the lower belly and under 
tail-coverts. 
The Lammergeyer or Bearded Vulture only occurs in the 
northern parts of Sind. 
