260 FALCOXIDJE. 



An egg of the Mexican Black Buzzard in the Collection is almost 

 elliptical in shape, fairly smooth, and without gloss. It is white, 

 smeared and otherwise marked all over with two or three shades of 

 rufous and with pale purplish grey. It measures 2'2 hy 1*8. 



1. San Geronimo, Guatemala, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



29th April (R. Owen). 



Sub-Family GYPAETINJE. 



Genus GYPAETUS. Storr. 



G-ypaetus barbatus (Linn.). 



Gypaetus barbatus, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. liii. fig. 1 (1845-54); 

 Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 9. fig. 3, tab. 57. fig. 1 (1855-63); 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 176; Bree, Birds Eur. i. p. 12, pi. (1866) ; 

 t. c. 2nd ed. i. p. 12, pi. (1875) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 401 

 (1872) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 228 (1874) ; Oates ed. Hume, 

 Nests fy Eggs Ind. Birds, iii. p. 127 (1890) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. 

 p. 260 (1899). 



The eggs of the Lammergeier, or Bearded Vulture, are of an ellip- 

 tical or spheroidal shape. The shell is rough in texture, granulated 

 and without gloss. They are often of a uniform colour varying from 

 rusty yellow to a deep orange-brown, but some are rusty yellow, 

 blotched and streaked with dull reddish and purplish brown, and 

 others are cream-colour mottled with dull purple and grey. They 

 measure from 3 to 3-6 in length, and from 2 - 55 to 2-75 in breadth. 



1. South Europe. Old Collection. 

 4. Spanish Pyrenees. Seebohm Coll. 



2. Sierra Nevada, Spain, 1st Feb. Seebohm Coll. 

 1. Acarnania, Greece, 14th Jan. Seebohm Coll. 



(T. Kruper). 



1. Acarnania, Feb. (T. K.). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Algeria, Jan. (O. Salvin). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Kabylia, Algeria, Feb. (Loche : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



1. Kabylia (Loche : Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Bokhari, Algeria, Jan. (Loche : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



2. Dhurmsala, Himalayas, 4th Dec. Hume Coll. 



(C. R. Cock). 



1. Dhurmsala, 2nd Jan. (C. R. C.). Hume Coll. 



1. Dhurmsala, 10th Feb. (C. R. C.). Hume Coll. 



