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each contained a single egg. Four of the eges were quite 
fresh, two partly incubated, and one ready to hatch off, those 
taken on the 22nd and 24th March, being quite fresh. ‘Two 
nests were not above fourteen feet from the ground, and no 
nest, (this is not a part of the country where trees run high,) 
was above 26 feet from the ground. ‘I'wo were on Keekur trees, 
two (the two low ones) on old Heense shrubs (Capparis Aphylla) 
and three on Peepul, Burgot and Seeshum trees. ‘he nests 
varied from 19 to 25 inches in diameter, and from 5 to 8 
inches in thickness, and were all dense masses of thorny twigs 
of the Ber (Zisyphus Jujube) Khyr (Acacia Catechu) and Keekur 
(Acacia Arabica). They were lined, some thickly, some thinly, 
with leaves or straw, and in one. the egg was regularly 
bedded in leaves and straw. This is not altogether in accord- 
ance with my own experience; but in this, as in other cases, 
Mr. Blewitt sent me all the eggs, and more than one of the 
parent birds, and there can be no doubt as to the accuracy of 
his observations. ‘The same gentleman took a fresh egg of 
this species, as late as April 13th, 1868. The nest was placed 
upon a Peepul tree, at the height of about 30 feet from the 
ground, measured about 16 inches in diameter by 6” in depth, 
and was composed of Keekur twigs, lined with fine straw and 
a few leaves. ‘This was also in the Hansee district. 
About Etawah, the native fowlers call this the “ Bhaour 
Gidh.” I rather suspect that these birds pair in the ai. 
Just before the breeding season, a pair may be seen to tower, 
and then, one apparently getting on the back of the other, both 
come with plunges and flappings of the wings nearly to the 
ground, when separating they sail away slowly towards some 
large tree where they both rest. Mr. R. Thompson and myself 
have observed something very similar in the Lammergeyer. 
Perhaps this is only ante-nuptial play and is not the real con- 
summation of matrimony. As regards the colour of the neck, 
legs and conspicuous bare thigh patch (which last Dr. Jerdon 
does not notice) I have remarked that it becomes much brighter, 
and more vivid, towards the breeding season, and is always at 
this time brighter in the male than in the female. 
The head of the young bird (which latter has the black of 
the adult everywhere replaced by a more or less dark brown) 
is pretty thickly covered with down, (that of the adult is bare) 
and looks almost like a miniature V. Monachus. In its oval 
narines too, Ca/vus approximates to the round ones of Monachus, 
so different from the slit-like nostrils of our 4 species of Gyps. 
Vultur Occipitalis of 8. Africa is a sort of representative of 
Calvus, but in this species, to judge from the specimen in my 
