68 Mr. W. Jesse on the 



No. 1197. Neophron ginginianus. Small White Sca- 

 venger Vulture. 



Safed Gidh, Kal Murgh [II.]. White Hawk [Martiniere 



boys] . 



This eminently useful hut exceedingly low-caste bird is 

 very common. To Thomas Atkins and his confreres it is 

 invariably known as the " Shork," the derivation of which 

 name hardly bears investigation. Its principal food is human 

 excrement, whence it gets the second native appellation. 

 The trenching-grounds, and all conservancy or slaughter- 

 quarters, are frequented by numbers of these birds. By the 

 uninitiated, the brown young and the white adult are looked 

 upon as distinct species. The breeding-season is from 

 March to May or possibly earlier. The nest, an evil-smelling 

 pile of rags, refuse, and filth of every description, is placed 

 either in a tree — mango, for choice — or on some building. 

 I have taken the eggs — two, or sometimes only one in 

 number — between the first two great arms flf a mango in 

 cantonments standing close by the carriage-road and not ten 

 feet from the ground ; on the top of a native house in the 

 city ; from the face of the United Service Club [Chutter 

 Munzil] ; and from what appeared to be the deserted nest 

 of Pseudogyps hengalensis in a solitary pepul-tree, as well as 

 in many other similar places. On the second occasion the 

 bird refused to budge from her charge and Ave had to poke 

 her off with a stick. The eggs are white in ground-colour, 

 but, as a rule, so thickly blotched with russet and red that 

 they are like huge Falcon's. The colouring-matter easily 

 washes off, a fact to be remembered when cleaning handsome 

 specimens. 



Average of 8 Li'ckixnv eggs 2-50" X T04" 



Measurement of largest egg 2*80'X -'-' •'' 



,, smallest egg 2 , 30"xl'8i" 



No. 1201. Aquila heliaca. Imperial Eagle. 



BaraJumiz*. Satangal [H., teste Reid]. Baz f. 



Not uncommon, especially in dim k-j angle studded here 

 * "Jumiz'' is applied to all large Eagles. 



f " Baz " is applied indifteiently to Eagles, Kites (except M. gooinda), 

 Ilaniei'S, and Falcons. 



