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Some eggs are unspotted greyish-white, but many of them are 
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colonies, sometimes as many as twenty nests being fonnd on asingle 
tree; these nests are placed at various heights, some being not more 
than ten or twelve feet from the ground, whilst others are 
placed near the top, each branch of any size being crowned with 
a nest. They never lay more than one egg, and this is somewhat 
smaller than that of the King Vulture, measuring about 8:25 
inches in length by nearly 2'4 in breadth. 
It is rather coarse in texture, and the liming is deep green. 
sparingly and faintly blotched with reddish-brown. Like most 
vulture eggs they are generally discoloured by the droppings of 
the parent birds. 
Panch Mahals, 12th to 24th November, J. Davidson, C. 8. 
Nassick, 25th November. Pr 
Deesa, 25th December to 19th February (young). HH. H, Barnes, 
Neemuch, 9th November to 2nd December (ine. eggs). sy 
Hydrabad, Sind, 4th to 10th December Ss 
Eastern Narra, Sind, 15th Nov. to 15th December, 8, Doig, Esq. 
Baroda, 25th November to 20th February. HI. Littledale, Esq. 
6.—THE SCAVENGER VULTURE, 
Neophrow ginginianus, Lath, 
The White or Scavenger Vulture is common throughout Western 
India, frequenting the neighbourhood of villages in preference to less 
populous places, for reasons indicated by its name, They breed 
from early in March to the end of April; the nests are solitary, 
and are found in varions situations,—the cornices of buildings, 
ledges in the faces of rocky or clayey cliffs, and more commonly 
on trees; when in the latter situation, ib 1s nob usually placed in a 
fork, but is built on a large horizontal branch at its junction with 
the trunk. Mr. Littledale says, ‘‘they never breed on trees in : 
Sind” (this is quite in accordance with my own experience) ; 
about Baroda always on trees; in hilly jungles on cliffs by 
preference, About Neemuch they always build on trees. 
The nest isa large, loose untidy affair, often lined with rags. 
The eggs, two in number, are broadish oval in shape, of a greyish- : 
white ground colour, beautifully streaked and blotched with deep 
reddish-brown; some of them are sorichly marked as to leave 
little or none of the ground colour visible, whilst others are 
