262 MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE REPRODUCTION OF THE COMMON EEL. 
and a still larger one of sixty or seventy at Siout, not together, but 
sitting apart at intervals, lazy and quiet. But the largest congre- 
gation of all was at a place just outside Cairo. Here on the 18th of 
February, 1874, just after we had “shot” the bridge, and Bhoda was 
opening into view, a surprising flock of Kites, and about a hundred 
Egyptian Vultures, wheeling in circles, soared farther than the eye 
could follow them into the blue vault of heaven. I suspect this is 
the place called “Bohveli” (once the square for executing capital 
offenders), mentioned by Hasselquist. 
V. 
FURTHER NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF THE 
COMMON EEL, ANGUILLA VULGARIS. 
By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., V.-P. 
Read 26th January, 1807. 
In the session of 1884 (Trans, vol. iv. p. 3) I had the pleasure of 
exhibiting to the Society a dissection of a female Eel, in which the 
ovaries were more extensively developed than in any which I had 
up to that time met with ; and by means of a microscopic 
preparation, for which I was indebted to our late friend 
Frederick Kitton, I was enabled to show the contained ova 
without difficulty. I then proceeded to call attention to the 
investigations of Drs. Syrski and Jacoby, by whom the sexual 
organs of the Common Eel were first fully described, and 
epitomised the conclusions to which the latter authority had arrived, 
which were briefly as follows : — (1) The development of the organs 
