THE liEAlUlED VULTVUE. 



The lammergeyer is tliinly scattered througliuut all the great chains of Europe, as 

 well as Asia and Africa, the terror of the flocks that graze ou the declivities, or among 

 the secluded vallej's beneath. It habitually preys on the chamois, the wild goat, the 

 Alpine hare, the marmot, and the lamb. It is from the latter animal being the frequent 

 victim of this bird, that the Swiss peasants call it the lammcrgeyei', literally, the lamb 

 ^allture ; but they sometimes extend the name to other large birds of prey. 



trailing in the air above the snow-clad summits of the stupendous Alps, it usually 

 watches till the miwarj' chamois approaches the edge of a precipice, or traverses the pass 



* Gj-paetus Bai-bntus. Stow. 



