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are the longest in the whig. Twenty-four eggs of this 
Buzzard have passed through my hands/' — Favier. 
This red-coloured Buzzard is, as above stated, comraon in 
Morocco. On the 26th of April, 1871, we found a nest on 
the top of a very tall olive-tree in a santo or burial-ground 
in Garbia, shooting both the old birds, one off the nest, which 
was like a Kite's and was lined with fresh olive-twigs and 
rags. It contained two eggs on the point of hatching ; they 
were of a white colour, thinly marked all over with very 
small, short, reddish-black lines, and were more rounded than 
average eggs of either of the Kites, though I have seen eggs 
of both Milvus ictinus and M. korschun very like them. 
In this santo, perhaps two acres in extent, were some of the 
tallest olive-trees I have ever seen, on which were, besides 
the Buzzard's nest, one of the Common Kite, with young, two 
of the Black Kite ; and in a bramble-brake at the edge was a 
nest of Marsh- Harriers, with young. The day before, we took 
Black-Kite's eggs quite fresh, which shows the relative time 
of nesting of the above-named species. 
I always saw this Buzzard in wooded districts, like our 
Common Buzzard, generally sitting on the bough of some 
dead tree ; and this makes me wonder that Favier did 
not mention it as nesting on trees. 
On the Spanish side of the Straits I never met with it ; 
nor have I seen a specimen which could be referred to this 
species. It is slightly smaller in size, and easily recognized 
within a hundred yards or so, from the reddish colour. The 
immature birds would be harder to distinguish without 
handling them. Irides fine orange-yellow. 
A 13. Gypaetus barbatus, Linn. Lammergeyer. 
Spanish. Quebranthuesos. 
The Lammergeyer is sparingly met with in the sierras 
of Andalucia, and, though I did not observe it about Ape's 
Hill, is no doubt found in the mountains on the African side 
of the Straits. The hill-districfc close to Algeciraz is the 
nearest place to Gibraltar that I have seen it ; and a pair 
frequented the Sierra de Plata in March last ; but we failed 
