STRAY FEATHERS. 
Vol. X.J DECEMBER 1881. [Nos. 1,2 & 3. 
he Birds of the Lucknow Civil Division. 
By Geo. RED. 
(Continued from Vol. IX., page 504.) 
List. 
1.—Vultur monachus, Lin. 
I have never been able to secure a specimen of this magnificent 
bird, the Cinereous Vulture, but one, now in the Lucknow 
Museum, was shot a few years ago at Ajgaen in the Unao 
district. It may, therefore, be accepted as an exceedingly rare 
visitor to the Division. 
2.—Otogyps calvus, Scop. Native name—Lal-sira 
Gudh.* 
The Black or King Vulture is a fairly common and permanent 
resident, though not nearly so abundant as P. bengalensis. It 
seems to be of a rather solitary disposition. I have seen its nest 
several times on high pipal trees, and once on a tall mangoe 
tree, though from none of them was I able to secure eggs. 
4.—Gyps indicus, Scop. 
I include the Long-billed Brown Vulture with some _hesita- 
tion, though Capt. Irby, in his paper on the Birds of Oudh and 
Kumaon, vide the Ibis, Vol. III. for 1861, p. 217, states that it is 
equally as common as Jengalensis; and that one was “ caught 
inside a horse’s belly at Alumbagh.” Now, there is no Vulture 
here as common as bengalensis ; if there is, it is certainly singular 
that I have not obtained specimens. On the other hand, I 
have occasionally seen a Vulture that I thought could not be 
bengalensis, but whether it was indicus or fulvescens—not to 
mention the probability of pallescens or tenuirostris occurring—I 
cannot say, but should think that it was indicus. 
® Gidh is applied to all Vultures. 
