NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS. 



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found, among a heap of filthy rags, a number of meal-worms. 

 Probably the Neophron had picked up a bag with some flour in it. 

 Naturally from the above-mentioned contents their nests are most 

 offensively odoriferous. 



NESTING-PLACE OF NEOPHRON. 



Neither Verner nor myself ever knew a Neophron to take a 

 lizard or any animal alive, and we imagine that the heads &c. 

 found in their nests are the remains of those killed by other 

 animals. They are probably among the foulest-feeding birds 

 that live, and are very omnivorous, devouring any animal 

 substance, even all sorts of excrement ; nothing comes amiss to 

 them. Sometimes they are seen feeding on the sea-shore on 

 dead fish thrown up by the tide. 



Neophrons in Andalucia, like Griffon Vultures, usually roost 

 among rocks ; but in March and April, 1894, Verner and mysel 

 noticed some twenty collect every afternoon to roost on some 



