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11. Otogtps CALYrs. (Map VII.) 



O. CALVUS (Scop.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 14. 



Hab. Found commonly throughout India, extending into Burma, but 

 by no means abuudant in individuals (Jerdon); not uncommon in Kattia- 

 war {Lloyd); found in the hills and plains near Mount Aboo and in north- 

 ern Guzerat (Butler); Jodhpoor, Cutch, Kattiawar, Sambhur, and Raj- 

 pootana generally, but not as yet from Sindh (Hume) ; common near the 

 Sambhur Lake ; " in the month of March I saw this bird sitting on its 

 nest, which was in the face of a rock in the hills near the town of Nawa " 

 (Adam, S. F. 1873, p. 367) j Etawah, breeding at Ajmere (Hume); be- 

 tween Simla and Mussoorie (Tytler, Ibis, 1871, p. 194); "seen occasion- 

 ally between Mussoorie and Gangaotri, and far into the hills, where one 

 would not expect to see a plains-loving Vulture. I saw one or two soar- 

 ing high above Derali" (Brooks, S. F. 1875, p. 228) ; frequently noticed at 

 Nynee Tal and Almora (Brooks); found in Oudh and Kumaon throughout 

 the year, breeding in^the cold season (Irby); Nepal (Hodgson); from the 

 neighbourhood of Calcutta {Mus. Ind.) ; not uncommon in Chota Nagpur, 

 but more than a pair rarely observed at a time (Ball, S. F. 1874, p. 376) ; 

 Wardha valley (Blanford, J. A. S. B. 1871, p. 270); Deccan (Sykes) ; 

 breeding near Gotekindee, Sattara district (Davidson, S. F. 1874, p. 336); 

 Travancore (Elwes) ; Kliasia and Garo hills, six or eight specimens ob- 

 served at Chatak (Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. 18/0, p. 265); not a com- 

 mon species in Burma (Blyth, B. Burma, p. 64); Upper Pegu (Oates, 

 Feilden) ; Siam (Schomburgk), Turkestan, an occasional summer visitant 

 to district III. (" the north-western district comprising Kai-atau, the west- 

 ern Thianshan mountains, the upper portions of the rivers Aris, Kedess, 

 Chirchick, and their tributaries, the lower Syr-Daria, from the source of 

 the Aris to Lake Aral and the delta of the Syr-Daria"): Severtzoff; cf. 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 97. The " vertical range " is given in the same 

 paper as follows : " an occasional straggler during summer in district II. 

 (the cultivated districts, grassy steppes, and gardens to 3000 or 4000 feet 

 altitude)." 



12. Neophson peecnopteefs. (Map VIII.) 



N. PERCNOPTERUS (L.); Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 17. 



PALiEARCTIC ReGION. 



Norway. BuflFon records a specimen from this country. 



Great Britain. Accidental visitor ; once in October 1825 near Kilve in 

 Somersetshire; a second in September 1828. For particulars, c/". New- 

 ton's edition of Yarrell, vol. i. p. 7. 



France. Of doubtful occurrence in the department of the Seine Infe- 

 rieure (Lemetteil, Cat. i. p. 82). Tolerably common in many places in the 

 Pyrenees, on the lofty mountains of Provence, in the departments of the 

 Var and the Basses Alpes; it lives also on those of L'Isere, La Drome, 



