38 BIRD-HUNTING 



This concluded a good day's work, for we had a 

 long march home, where we arrived very tired and 

 hungry, but very well satisfied with the results. 

 One egg of Bonelli's Eagle, two eggs of Griffon 

 Vulture, and two eggs of Egyptian Vulture, consti- 

 tuted a very good day's takings, without reckoning 

 the Goldfinches' and other small eggs we had picked 

 up accidentally on our way. 



This was our last day's work in this locality, for 

 we had arranged for our carriage to come out again 

 from Algeciras to take us on to the railway between 

 Cadiz and Jerez-de-la Frontera. 



On the way we passed a great assemblage of 

 Griffons hurrying at full speed from every point of 

 the compass, and converging in hundreds in a field 

 at a little distance from the road, where, no doubt, 

 was a carcase in process of being devoured. There 

 was no time to stop, however, for we had before us 

 a journey of something like forty miles, and the 

 certainty that if we missed our train we should have 

 from twelve to twenty-four hours to wait. But for 

 some distance as we drove along, belated birds 

 passed us, all bound for the same spot. 



This well illustrates their method, and explains 

 why it is that so many congregate in so short a 

 time in a spot where perhaps the keenest observer 

 would fail to discover a single Vulture. They spend 

 the day soaring in great circles at an immense height, 



