THE GRIFFON VULTURE 



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Mr. Howard Carter, whose long connection 

 with the work of the Antiquities of Egypt gives 

 him the right to speak with authority, is now 

 preparing for publication a book on this whole 

 subject of the portrayal of animal life by Egyptian 

 art, which is awaited with great interest, as he 

 has given years of study to this one branch ; and 

 though I may ven- 

 ture to say something 

 now and again of the 

 present-day birds, and 

 their pictured present- 

 ments in temples or 

 tombs, the reader will 

 do well to wait till 

 Mr. Carter's book is Fie, i 



published before com- gyps fulvus— griffon vulture. 



mrr +n tnn ■noQitlvf From a monument of Nectanebo in the Louvre. 



a conclusion on a rather vexed subject. Of the 

 Vulture there is no doubt, but of which of the 

 existing hawks was the model of the Hawk almost 

 as frequently depicted as the Vulture few are 

 agreed, and personally I can arrive at no very 

 satisfactory conclusion. 



The Griffon Vulture is common now, and 

 probably always has been. Its usefulness is 



