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young paroquet which it had seized by the head and killed. He had then 

 driven it off by throwing a stone at it whilst it was proceeding to pull its 

 prey in pieces. 



He showed me the young bird, which bore marks corroborating his 

 story . 



Perhaps this trait may be known to other readers, but it is qviite new 

 to me. 



A. NEWNHAM, Lt.-Col., I. A. 

 JuLLUNDER, nth April 1911. 



XXV.— JACK SNIPE IN THE OAWNPOEE DISTEICT. 



With reference to the description of the Jack-Snipe Gall'mayo (jallmula 

 and its habits in the May Number of the Journal, would it be of any 

 interest to you to have my figures for the past season of the relative 

 number of the Jack and Fantail snipes shot by me in this district ? 



They are as follows : out of a total of 204 couple 65 couple were Jack. I 

 think this probably represents a greater proportion than the numbers of 

 Jack seen would bear to those of the Fantail, as on several occasions large 

 wisps of the latter went away without being shot at. Still these figures 

 show that this season at least Jacks were very plentiful in this district. 



W. B. SPALDING, Capt., k.a. 

 Cawxpoke, '2Uh May 1911. 



No. XXVI.— NESTING OF THE CINEREOUS VULTURE {VULTUR 

 MONACHUS) NEAR QUETTA. 



When I was quartered in Quetta some years ago, I had the eggs of this 

 vulture brought to me on more than one occasion, but I had never myself 

 procured the egg. 



This year having heard from a Pathan that he knew of a nest, I made 

 arrangements to go out and see it. April the sixteenth was the date. I 

 started early from my bungalow and drove about 14 miles to the end of 

 the road, and then took to the hills walking ; after about three hours up and 

 down hill, we reached the tree on which the nest was placed; this was on old 

 juniper about 40 feet high and 7 feet through at the foot, and was situated on 

 the steep hill side about 8,000 feet above sea level; it was in a very wild place 

 with high cliffs and steep slopes all round it. The nest itself was placed 

 right at the top of the tree, so that the bird sitting on it was visible from a 

 long way off. I climbed up to the nest with some difficulty, as the tree was 

 extremely thick, and when I got to it, I found it by no means an easy task 

 to see into it owing to its immense size ; however, I managed it at last and 

 then found to my disgust that there was a young bird in it. I should judge 

 about one week old. 



