AND NORTHERN GUZERAT. 441 



in the tract which I have specially worked, and to which this 

 paper primarily refers. 



1.— Vultur monachus, Lin. 



I saw one specimen of the Great Brown or Cinereous Vulture 

 feeding on the carcase of a Pelican-ibis, (T. leucocephalus) on 

 the edge of a tank about 20 miles north of Ahrnedabad in the 

 cold weather of 1870. I have not met with the species since 

 in this part of India. The bird was by no means wild, allowing 

 me to approach to within 30 or 40 yards without shewing any 

 signs of alarm. 



[I have not yet received or heard of this species from Jodh- 

 poor, Cutch, Kattiawar or Siudh, and though it doubtless may 

 occur within this vast tract, it can only be as a rare straggler. 

 At Sambhur though very rare it does occur. I even saw it once 

 at Ajmere, and further north in Rajpootana it is not uncommon. 

 —A. 0. H.] 



2.— Otogyps calvus, Scop. 



The Black Vulture, though not so common as Gyps indicus 

 and Gyps bengalensis and being of a much more solitary 

 nature owing probably to its pugnacious disposition, is usually 

 to be found wherever there is a dead carcase both on the hills 

 and in the plains. 



[Jodhpoor, Cutch, Kattiawar, Sambhur and Rajootana gene- 

 rally, but not as yet from Siudh. — A. O. H.j 



3.— Gyps fulvus,* Gmel. 



The Large Tawny Vulture is not uncommon in the plains. 



my own people, and lastly Dr. Stoliczka's paper. J. A. S. B. 1872. From Kattiawar 

 I have a few specimens obtained by myself on its western shores from Bevt to Poor- 

 bunder, a considerable collection made for me, and Captain Hayes Lloyd's paper in the 

 Ibis for 1873- From Sindh I have received numerous specimens since I myself col- 

 lected there from Major Le Messurier, Mr. James, Captain Wise, &c. These, with 

 the specimens sent me from time to time by Captain Butler from northern Guzerat, a 

 collection made by Dr. Eddowes at Erinpoora, which he kindly sent me to see and out 

 of which he gave me several specimens, and some minor contributions constitute as a 

 ■whole a tolerably broad, though still certainly very far from complete basis for gener- 

 alizing. 



I have added in my remarks and comments in brackets. — Ed. 



* Gyps Fulvus and Gyps Fulvescens. — I have entered G. fulvus, Gmel., and 

 G. fulvescens, Hume, separately, although it is possible they belong to the same 

 species, as the two birds I refer to are so totally different in the coloration of plumage 

 as well as in other respects. G. fulvus, Gml., of this part of the country corresponds 

 almost, if not exactly in size and plumage, with G. fulvus, of Europe, of which, 

 I have shot and examined many specimens in the south of Spain. G. fulvescens, 

 Hume, in my opinion, judging from the specimens I have seen, is a smaller bird 

 and has the lower plumage almost of a chestnut red and the upper far darker and 

 more rufous than any G. fulvus I have ever met with. I have carefully read 

 over Mr. Hume's remarks upon these two species in ''Rough notes on the Indian 

 Kaptores," pages 12 to 21, and '"Strat Feathebs," Vol. I., pages 148 to 150 on 

 the same subject and fully concur with him in thinking that these two species are 

 entitled to a specific separation. 



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