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each side crowned by masses of precipitous rock, we disturbed 
a pair of Egyptian Vultures from what was evidently a 
nesting-place—a small cave in the face of a perpendicular 
and much weather-worn cliff standing like a ruined castle on 
the summit of the hillside. A scramble through the bushes 
and we soon reached the foot of the cliff, the cave not twenty 
feet above us ; moreover, there was an easy way round to 
where a conveniently situated fig-tree offered a secure 
fastening for our rope, up which I climbed, as owing to the 
overhanging rock the place was more easily accessible from 
below than from above. 
“ The nest was on the floor of the cave and consisted of an 
untidy mass of sticks roughly lined with rags and bits of 
rubbish and goats’ hair, while scattered around were bones, 
pieces of goat-skin, and other very evil-smelling remains. 
“ In the nest lay one large egg, the bluish-white ground¬ 
colour almost obscured by smudges and blotches of rich 
chocolate-brown. 
“ On the 25th April I took another egg from the same 
nest, and yet a third on the 8th May, all similar in appearance. 
“The usual complement is two, a third is, I think, unusual.’* 
The allied Indian species (Neophron ginginianus ) I found 
common among the Outer Himalayas, especially round 
Dagshai, Sabathu, and the neighbouring hill-stations, at an 
elevation of about 7000 feet; apparently it is more rare 
at greater altitudes, anyhow during many expeditions into 
the high snow-ranges at Kashmir and Baltistan I saw but 
one, and that late in the summer. 
Within a few hundred yards of the Neophron’s nest, the 
finding of which I have described, but on the opposite side 
of the ravine, we discovered the eyrie of a Bonelli’s Eagle. 
It was very easy of access from the flat hilltop above, for 
a descent of about ten feet landed us on the ledge of a rock 
where the nest lay, in fact almost in the mass of sticks, which 
was lined with green leaves. It contained two handsome 
eggs, dull white with a few faint reddish blotches. The 
date was early in April, about the 8th or 10th. 
From his description I gather that both these nests were 
