480 Mr. E. C. Taylor— A^o/es on 



added a fourth example to the three previously known to exist 

 of Saxicola xantlioprymna. 



Bubo ascalaphus (Sav.). Egyptian Eagle-Owl. 

 I bought a fine specimen of this Owl in the Cairo market 

 on January 11th. 



VuLTUR AURicuLARis. Sociable Vulture. 

 One example of this Vulture was seen in a small collection 

 of birds made on the Nile in the month of January. 



Gyps rueppelli. Riippell's Vulture. 



There was a beautiful pair of these Vultures in the Cairo 

 Zoological Gardens, which had been bought from an Arab 

 at the Pyramids of Ghizeh^ who said that he caught them 

 about a day^s journey away in the desert. They have since 

 been acquired by the London Zoological Society, and are 

 now in their Gardens in the Regent's Park. This species 

 has never before been recorded from Egypt, and is new to 

 the list of Egyptian birds ^. 



Aquila clanga. Pall, Greater Spotted Eagle. 



A very fine example of this Eagle, in the spotted plumage 

 of the first year, was shot at Kubbeh, about three miles 

 north of Cairo, on the 11th of January, and is now in my 

 collection. 



MiLvus ^GYPTius (Gmelin). Egyptian Kite. 



These Kites were more numerous than ever in and about 

 Cairo, and the wonder is what they all find to eat, now that 

 the town is kept tolerably clean, and dead carcasses are no 

 longer allowed to lie about. I never could see them eating 

 anything, their time being chiefly devoted to love-making 

 and nest-building, for which latter purpose I have seen them 

 carry sticks both in beak and claws. I never tired of 

 watching their aerial flirtations and perpetual squabbles with 

 the Crows ( Corvus comix), whose approach to their nest was 

 always resented. In one tree in the Esbekiyeh garden 

 this year there were two Kites' nests aud one Crows' nest. 



* See also Sclater, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 400, and 1896, p. 609. 



