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[See Captain Butler's note ; I have never yet seen an Indian- 

 killed example of the European G. fulvus, and if Captain But- 

 ler's identification is, as I have no reason to doubt, correct, 

 then this bird straggles eastwards just within the western limits 

 of the British Empire, being replaced elsewhere in our terri- 

 tories by G.fulvescens, and will doubtless occur in Sindh, Kutch 

 and Kattiawar, from neither of which however have I yet 

 seen it. — A. 0. H.] 



3 bis.— Gyps fulvescens, Hume. 



The Bay Vulture is not common. I have met with it on a 

 few occasions in the neighbourhood of Deesa feeding on putrid 

 carcases in company with Gyps indicus and Gyps hengalensis. 



[This I have myself shot at Deesa and Jodhpoor. I have it 

 from Cutch, Kattiawar, Sindh. From Ajmere, Sambhur, &c. — 

 A. 0. H.] 



4 bis.— Gyps pallescens, Hume. 



Gyps indicus, Scop. — The Long-billed Brown Vulture, like 

 the next species, is very common. 



[This is not the so-called indicus of Scop., so common in the 

 eastern portions of our Empire ; it is the pale cliff breeding 

 western species fully described in my Rough Notes, pp. 21-26, 

 under Scopoli's name, but which I discriminated and renamed 

 pallescens, St. F., I., p. 150. This breeds on Mount Aboo (N. 

 and E, p. 6) and I have it from Jodhpore, Cutch and Kattiawar, 

 but not Sindh as yet. — A. 0. H.] 



5. — Gyps bengalensis, Gmel. 



The White-backed Vulture is very common both on the hills 

 and in the plains. 



[Observed throughout the entire region save only in Sindh 

 whence it has not yet been recorded. — A. 0. H.] 



6.— Neophron ginginianus, Baud. 



The "White Scavenger or Egyptian Vulture is another very 

 common species occurring both on the hills and in the plains. 



[Throughout Sindh, Cutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpoor and Raj- 

 pootana. I have not yet been able to settle the question of the 

 distinctness or otherwise of the Indian race, S. F., I., 160.— 

 A. 0. H.] 



[8.— Falco peregrinus, Lin. 



I saw a pair and shot a female some 16 miles west of Deesa 

 on the road to Sooegam, and I am almost certain I saw one at a 

 swamp on the road from Deesa to Ahinedabad. I have it from 



