1920,] Birds of Quetta. 175 



.fflgyptius monachus (L.). (= VuUur )iionarJius IManford, 

 F. B. 1.) 



Not common, tliougli, from its coiispicnoiis size, it is fre- 

 quently noted, each mountain liavino- one or two pairs which 

 are resident. Dehne-Iladcliffe took an eog from a nest on 

 Zarghun at 10,500 feet on 5. iv. (B. N. H. S. xxii. p. 394), 

 and Marshall found a nest with a newl}- -hatched young bird 

 on 5. V. (ibid. xv. p. 351). I found another chick in a nest 

 on Zarghun at 0500 feet on 4. iv., the huge mass of sticks 

 which composed the nest being about 18 feet from the ground 

 in a patriarchal juniper tree. 



Gyps fulvus. 



G.f.fidcus (Habl.). 



A fairly plentiful resident, though the birds disappear in 

 very severe weather. Marshall found the young already out 

 of the shell on 25. iv. 



Gyps himalayensis Hume. 



A local specimen is in the Quetta Museum, obtained on 

 10. ii.lO. 



Neophron percnopterus. 

 A^. j). percnopterus (L.) . 



Never observed in the middle of winter, but a few appear 

 in early March and are seen throughout the summer. 

 Plentiful at Ziarat in July and around Quetta till November. 

 Birds of the year commenced to appear at the refuse 

 dumping ground at Quetta in late July. No nests found. 



Quetta birds are of the ty|)ical form. 



Gypaetus barbatus. 

 G. h. (/rand is Storr. 



A common resident even in the severest weather, and 

 breeding plentifully in the mountains. I estimated there 

 were five pairs nesting on Murdar in 1914. One nest which I 

 located on 2. iv. at 10,000 feet was on the ledge of a cliff, and 

 I could see the old bird sitting, but was unable to got closer 

 than about 50 feet and failed to move her from the nest. 



