INTRODUCTION.

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ORDER RAPTORES.
Family VULTURID.
Genus NEorHRON.
1. NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS : : : g : : ‘ : : : Vol Ban

EayptTian VULTURE.
We have very positive evidence that this bird has been killed in Somersetshire and Essex, of which

occurrences the particulars will be found in my account of the species.

Genus Gyps.
2. Gyps FULVUS.
Griffon Vulture.

This bird has still Jess claim to a place in the British Fauna than the Egyptian Vulture ; I have there-
fore not given a plate of it, notwithstanding that its occurrence has been recorded by Thompson, and
that Yarrell has figured it from a specimen “caught by a youth on the rocks near Cork harbour in the

spring of 1843. The bird was full-grown ; the plumage perfect, without any of the appearances conse-

quent on confinement ; it was very wild and savage, and was in perfect health.”

This Vulture is of large size and proportionate strength, possesses great sustaining powers of flight,
and enjoys a widely extended geographical range, being found in Germany, France, on the Pyrenees, in
Spain. It also occurs in the Grecian archipelago, Candia, Egypt, and other parts of North Africa ; and
Dr. Jerdon states that it also inhabits Western Asia and the Himalaya Mountains. It makes a large
nest, 3 or 4 feet in diameter, on rocks and high trees, and lays two, or sometimes three, elongated

white eggs nearly as large as those of a Goose.

Family FALCONIDA.

Subfamily AQUILINA.
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