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incubating a single egg: twice I have found three eggs in the 

 same nest, but, in each of these latter cases, one of the three eggs 

 was much smaller and feebler-coloured than the other two. 



Major Bingham writes : — " I have not taken the trouble to 

 collect many eggs of this Vulture, though it breeds commonly both 

 at Allahabad and at Delhi in the end of February and in March." 



Mr. iScrope Doig, writing from the Eastern Narra, says : — 

 " Collected eggs of this species from the 15th of March up to the 

 2nd of May, but got most in April. Nests situated in pollarded 

 kundy trees. Eggs varied much in colour, some being nearly 

 white, while others, one or two in particular, were all of a deep, 

 warm brick-colour, with two or three blotches of a very dark 

 liver-colour." 



Colonel Butler says : — " This Vulture breeds in the neighbour- 

 hood of Deesa in April. The nest is usually placed iu the fork of 

 some large tree about 20 or 30 feet from the ground or on the face 

 of a cliff. 



" Numerous nests on trees in the vicinity of Belgaura in 

 February 1880; dates as follows :— 7th, 11th, 16th, 2iird, 24th, 

 27th, and 28th. One egg of a somewhat remarkable type, being 

 white covered with pale lilac markings, a remarkably handsome 

 specimen." 



Mr. Benjamin Aitken sends me the following note : — " A pair of 

 these birds began to build in a tree in a compound in the station 

 of Akola, Berar, near the end of June, 1869. The spot selected 

 was between 15 and 20 feet from the ground. The birds con- 

 tinued till the close of the monsoon to carry sticks and rags to the 

 tree and arrange them in the form of a nest; but they worked 

 irregularly, stopping for a week at a time, and letting the rain 

 destroy what they had put together, so that the nest was at no 

 time more than half finished. In the following February 

 (1870) the birds recommenced operations, but after working for a 

 few more weeks gave up altogether, without ever laying an egg. 



" In April, 1870, one egg was found on the outer ledge of the 

 College tower at Poona. There were rags and sticks lying all 

 along the ledge, but there was no appraach to a nest, and the egg 

 was lying on the bare chunam. A pair of White Vultures were 

 habitually to be seen on the ledge." 



Messrs. Davidsou and Wenden write from the Deccan : — " Verv 

 common. They lay from the beginning of February to the end of 

 March, the majority laying only one egg ; but we have found them 

 with two." 



Mr. G. Vidal tells us that in South Konkan this Vulture is 

 " rather scarce, both on the coast and inland. I have seldom 

 seen more than one pair in any one place below the Ghiits. Above 

 the Ghats in Sattara it is, I think, the commonest of all the Vultures. 

 The only two nests I have found in this district contained two young 

 ones each in January, and were both built in forlis of mango- 

 trees." 



Miss Gockburn says : — " On the Nilghiris, White Vultures are 



