2 Hon. T. L. Powys on Birds 



weather of January and February of 1857, when they were 

 attracted by the quantities of horses and cattle which died, and 

 were left to decay in the marshes. Having mentioned to a (or, 

 more properly speaking, to the) bird-stuffer of Corfu that I 

 should like to have one of these birds alive, he in a few days 

 procured me four from the mainland. They were all wounded, 

 apparently by swords or knives, and three died soon after I first 

 saw them. I administered gin-and-watcr and bullock's liver 

 internally, and olive-oil externally to the fourth, who soon re- 

 covered sufficiently to lacerate my hands whenever I attempted to 

 touch him, and eventually escaped with about five feet of stout 

 rope attached to his leg. I never could discover that these 

 Vultures bred in the neighbourhood of the coast ; but a pair or 

 two are to be observed at almost all seasons in the vicinity of 

 Santa Quaranta, Tre Scoglie, Butrinto, Ptelia, Pagania, Livi- 

 tazza, and Phanari, small harbours on the coast of Epirus fre- 

 quented by sportsmen from Corfu. 



2. Cinereous Vulture. ( Vultur monachus) ? 



I once, and once only, observed a very large black-looking 

 Vulture engaged on the remains of a horse, near Butrinto, in 

 the winter of 1857. It certainly was not Grjps fulvus. The 

 Corfu bird-preserver told me that he had seen a Black Vulture 

 from the mainland, but that it was very rare. This species is 

 common in the island of Sardinia. 



3. Egyptian Vulture. [Neophron per cnoptei'us.) 



Very common in summer on the mainland. A pair bred in 

 1857 in a low sea-cliff" near Ptelia, about seven miles from Corfu, 

 across the channel which separates the island from Albania, or 

 more properly Epirus. I have been assured that it also breeds 

 on San Salvador in the island of Corfu. The first I recognized 

 was near Prevesa, in the Gulf of Arta, on the 15th of March, 

 1857. I have never observed them later than the beginning of 

 September, and I never saw a specimen except in the white 

 adult plumage. 



4. Bearbed Vulture. [Gypaetus harbatus) ? 



I can speak almost confidently, though not with complete 

 certainty, of having observed this species on three separate 



