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238 chiefly remarkable for its powerful flight and gluttony.

Gyps nivicola (Severtsoff). Gyps Himalayensis (Hume).

Late in the morning when the sun is already warm, the snow-vultures rise from their nocturnal haunts, which are invariably amongst the most inaccessible cliffs, and fly at first low along the axis of the range, then, circling upwards, soar to untold heights. When we have been encamped at an elevation of 1 2,000 feet I have watched them with a good field-glass ascending until they completely disappeared from sight, as each stroke of their powerful