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THE BIRDS OF MESOPOTAMIA. 
This vulture, the least rare of those which occur, cannot be said to be really 
common anywhere ; it is resident, or practically so, breeding in the Jebel Hamrin 
range ; some move down to the plains in the non-breeding season and others 
remain in the plains all the year as non-breeding birds. It is widely distributed 
in quite small numbers, single birds or twos and threes being the usual thing. 
Tomlinson records it as common at Ahwaz where ke found three nests in 
April ; Cheesman found it nesting on a ledge of a cave at the Maidan-i-N aptun 
oil-fields on Monday 20th. 
(To be continued,) 
