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VULTURID/E. 



Young. Entire plumage dark chocolate brown, with central streaks of 

 paler brown, those on the ruff and under surface being lighter and more 

 fulvescent, and consequently more distinct. 



Hab. Himalayas, Bhootan, Afghanistan, Nepal. 



Breeds in January, February, and March. Mr. Hume says, the nest is a 

 huge platform of sticks placed on a rocky ledge of some bold precipice in 

 the Himalayas at least 3,000 feet above the sea. It lays a single egg, larger 

 than that of any of the other Indian Vultures, oval, or a broad oval, the 

 ground colour being of the usual greenish or greyish white of all the true- 

 Vultures, unspotted or richly blotched and mottled chiefly towards the small 

 end with brownish red. Size 378 x 2'8 inches to 3-98 x 2 ' 8 5 inches. 



4. Gyps indicUS, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. Seng. p. 33 1^49; 

 Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 9, No. 4; Gray, Cat. Mam. and B. Hodgson, p. 16 ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Ace. Br. M. p. IO; Hume, Stray F. vii. 165. Gyps tenuirostris, Hodgs.; 

 Scully, Stray F. viii. 219. The LONG-BILLED VULTURE. 



Adult. Head bare, also the nape, neck, cheeks, and throat, but very thinly 

 sprinkled with brownish white hair-like feathers ; ruff and upper surface of 

 body dark brown, the feathers mesially streaked with fulvous ; the wing 

 coverts slightly paler with the streaks more distinct. Lower back and 



