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Mr. C. G. Danford on the 
end of January. On the 2nd February a nest containing two 
eggs was found near Niraroun. In its lining were a good 
many rags^ and the rather ghastly item of a lock of womaMs 
hair. Another nest^ with a single fresh egg, was taken quite 
late in the same month. The nest is generally placed in a 
hollow on the face of a high cliff. In one angle of the ravine 
close to Zebil, four nests were found pretty close together. 
Three of these Nizam Ali, a splended rock-climber; succeeded 
in reaching; but they all turned out to be old, and used 
merely as charnel-houses and larders, being crammed with 
bones. The remaining nest, in which the birds were evi¬ 
dently breeding, defied all attempts to reach it; and no rope 
of sufficient length being procurable, we had very reluctantly 
to give it up. 
The largest specimen shot was a female, which weighed 
11 lb., the total length being 49 inches, and the wing-spread 
106^ inches. The largest male killed weighed about the same, 
its total length being 44 inches, and the wing-spread 102. 
Adult females seem to be rather more rust-coloured in the 
throat and underparts than the males. This species was also 
seen in the north part of the country, but rarely. 
2. VuLTUR MONACHUS, L. Kara hartal (Black Vulture). 
A single pair, which appeared at Zebil on the 14th Feb., 
and remained stationary, were the only birds of this kind 
observed. 
3. Gyps pulvus (Gmel.). Kartal (Vulture). 
Common everywhere. In the cliffs about Zebil they nested 
in the latter end of February and the beginning of March. 
We constantly watched them carrying sticks and branches 
for the construction of their nests. A pair killed weighed 
21 lb. and 19 lb. respectively. The former was a female, 
and measured 105 inches across the wings, and had a total 
length of 45 inches. 
4. Neophron percnopterus (L.). Ak Baba (White 
father). 
Common. The first of these birds arrived at Anascua 
April 4th, and were quickly followed by larger instalments 
