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correct in saying that this Vulture does not breed in Aden, 

 the large rookeries seen in many parts of the peninsula being 

 roosting- and not nesting-places. Capt. Shopland told me 

 that he had sent a native up to one of these rookeries, but 

 that no nests were to be found. 



3. Circus macrurus (S. G. Gm.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. i. p. 67 (1874). 



a. J. Lahej, March 10, 1895. 

 Common inland at Aden. 



4. Melierax polyzonus (Riipp.) ; Barnes, Ibis, 1893, 

 p. 67. 



Not uncommon round Lahej. 



5. AcciPiTER Nisus (Linn.) ; Barnes, Ibis, 1893, p. 65. 

 a. c? . Lahej, March 8, 1895. 



Not uncommon in the Aden district. 



6. Aquila iMPERiALis (Bechst.) ; Barnes, Ibis, 1893, p. 66. 

 Recorded by Barnes, but not met with by me. 



7. Aquila chrysaetus (Linn.) ; Barnes, Ibis, 1893, p. 65. 

 An Eagle seen on the plateau below Shum-shum, sailing 



along the edge of the cliffs bordering the deep nullah running 

 into the tanks, was probably of this species. 



8. Haliaetus leucogaster (Gm.) ; Barnes, Ibis, 1893, 

 p. 66. 



Recorded by Barnes, but surely a most unlikely bird 

 to be found near Aden. 



9. MiLvus ^GYPTius (Gm.) ; Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, p. 14 ; 

 Barnes, Ibis, 1893, p. 67. 



A resident species, very common and generally distributed. 

 It breeds everywhere in the neighbourhood — in Aden on the 

 cliffs, at Lahej and Shaik Othmaii in the small trees. A 

 nest found at the latter place in March 1895 contained only 

 one egg ; it was situated in a tree, about 25 feet from the 

 ground. 



10. Elanus c^ruleus (Desf.); Barnes, Ibis, 1893, p. 67. 

 Not uncommon at the edge of the desert round Lahej 



(Al Hautah) .' 



