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VULTURID/E. 



Length. 42 to 45 inches ; expanse 96 to 1 18 ; wing 29-5 to 32 ; culmen 3*3 ; 

 tarsus 4-25. 



Hab. A native of Europe. Found on the lofty mountains of Italy, the 

 Tyrol, and also in Africa. In India it affects the hilly ranges of Central India, 

 Guzerat, Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, 

 Oudh, Bengal, Rajpootana, Central India, Kutch, Tennaserim, and the Nepal 

 Valley. In the Himalayas it is fairly abundant ; also in Assam and Bhootan. 



There is no positive information as to the breeding of this Vulture in India, 

 but from facts collected by Mr. A. O. Hume and recorded in his " Rough Notes 

 on Indian Ornithology and Oology," it is probable that it breeds in the Hima- 

 layas from January to March. The Rev. H. B. Tristram, "Ibis," 1865, and Mr. 

 C. Farman give interesting particulars of its nidification in Central Bulgaria 

 and Palestine. In the Pyrenees it is said to lay two eggs, varying from a 

 more or less pure white with scarcely any trace of markings, to a reddish or 

 fulvous white, richly marked with reddish brown ; in shape a very blunt 

 slightly pyriform oval ; texture coarse and rough ; size 3-48 x 275 inches. 



Gen. GypS- Savigny. 



Tarsus shorter than middle toe ; 14 tail feathers ; nostrils perpendicular, 

 rather oval. 



2. GypS fulvescens, Hume, Rough Notes, p. 19; Str. F., vol. vii. 

 p. 322 ; i., p. 149; Ibis 1869; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. Br. Mus. (Sub-Sp. B.), p. 7; 



