188 A SPRING TOUR IX PORTUGAL. 



1. *VuLTUR FULVus (Gmel.), 'Griffon Vulture,' Griffo. 



Said to be common in the soiitlurn districts, and seen by 

 me on several occasions in the phiins of Alemtejo. 



2. "fVuLTUR ciNEREUS (GmcL), ' Cincrcous Vulture,' Pica-osso. 



Sufficiently well known to enjoy a separate specific name 

 in Portuguese, a distinction only accorded to those birds ha- 

 bitually met with. The title, however, which it has received 

 seems b}^ some mischance to be usurped from another species, 

 and to belong of right to Gypaeius barbatus^ at all events in 

 the neighbouring country of Sj^ain. 



*3. *NEOPriRON PERCNOPTERUS (Linn.), 'Egyptian Vulture.' 



I failed to discover the Portuguese name of tliis bird, 

 though I fell in with it on many occasions, and should call 

 it common in suitable districts. There is but one specimen 

 in the Lisbon Museum, an adult bird in miserable condition. 

 These three species of Vulture seem to be scattered in 

 small numbers over the southern portions of Europe, as 

 might be expected from the immense flocks one sees of them 

 in Egypt and North Africa generally. I could hear nothing, 

 on enquiry, of the * Lammergeier,' Gypaetus barbatus ; 

 though, as it is still found in the Pyrenees, and Don Machado* 

 says that it inhabits the Sierra Morena in Spain, while Lord 

 Lilford,! in his admirable papers on the Ornithology of 

 Spain, speaks of it as almost common in favourable locali- 

 ties in that country, I should conceive it must occasionally 

 be seen in the wilder parts of Northern Portugal, and in the 

 savage regions of the Gerez mountains, where the Wolf and 

 the Wild Boar abound, and the Ibex is still occasionally 

 found. 



4. fAQUiLA ciiRYSAETUS (Linn.), 'Golden Eagle,' yiguia real. 



Said to be extremely common in all the mountainous 

 districts. 



h. jAquila iieliaca (Sav.), 'Imperial Eagle,' Agnia impen'al. 



* Catahgo de Jas Avcs ohscrvadas en aJgunas j^fovincias de Ayidah'cia. 

 Por D. Antonio Machado. Sevilla, 1854. 



t Ibis: 18G.3, pp. 1G6-177; 1866, pp. 173-187, 377-392, 



