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45 degrees. The nest was rather a large one, neatly lined with 

 straw, and the egg was slightly set. Both birds were present, one 

 on the nest, and the other on a rock about 20 yards off. They 

 were unmistakably Otogyps calvus. 1 did not shoot them, though 

 wthin 15 yards of them, as there could be no doubt uhat they were. 

 The choice of situation for the nest seems strange, as within half 

 a mile there were plenty of large trees, banyan, peepul, and tama- 

 rind. On the 22nd of this month I saw another nest of this 

 Vulture on the very top of the highest tree of a small group, a 

 banyan. The egg was not laid, but both birds were constantly 

 flying about the nest. Within 100 yards of this nest, on a very 

 high peepul-tree, there was a nest on which the villagers said the 

 While-backed Vulture had bred a month or so ago. The birds 

 were still flying about, but the nest was empty." 



And from the Western Khandesh he writes : — "Asa rule, appears 

 to resort to the Satpuras to breed, numerous nests being found by 

 me in March there, and without exception on high trees in thick 

 jungle." 



Again, Mr. Davidson and Mr. Wenden, writing from the Deccan, 

 say :—" Nest -with one egg, found by D. in Sholapoor District, 

 26th December, 1874, and another with a single egg on 28th Feb- 

 ruary, 1876. We saw numbers in the inter\al. Some nests near 

 villages were in high trees, and others, far away frooi habitation, 

 were in much smaller trees." 



Mr. Scrope Doig, referring to the nidification of this Vulture in 

 the Eastern Narra, Sind, says : — "The first nest of this species I 

 took on the 13th February, and it contained a single fresh egg. 

 I discovered eleven other nests within a radius of 6 or 7 miles. 

 The nests were all placed on the top of low bushes. The nature 

 of the country was low sandhills, covered with stunted jungle. 

 Several of the nests were on the top of the wild caper bush, whic h 

 was growing to the height of 8 or 10 feet. None of the other 

 nests contained eggs, but both the birds were sitting close to the 

 nests. I left a man to watch the nests and he took eggs from 

 them between the 15th March and the 21st April. Some of the 

 birds apparently never laid, or at any rate had not done so up to 

 end of April. One nest, which was in another part of the district, 

 I watrhed myself from 22nd of March to 5th of May, but without 

 getting any eggs ; during all this time the old birds were sitting 

 either on the nest or close to it. Whether they eventually laid or 

 not I cannot say. In no instance was there more than one eRg-, 

 and all were of a pure white colour." 



Colonel Gr. F. L. Marshall writes : — " One fresh egg taken at 

 Agra on the 10th February. The nest was on the top of a very 

 high peepul-tree, close to a village. The old birds were very w ary. 

 I saw a pair of them utterly routed by a pair of Eagles and driven 

 off the offal they were feeding on." 



Mr. J. C. Parker says : — " At the entrance of the Eoopuckrani 

 river, and close to the ruins of F'ort IMornington, I found a nest of 

 this bird on the 1st February, 1874, in a peepul-tree, the identical 



