THE 
BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
OrperR RAPTORES.—Family Voutturip2. 
Eeyprran Vuuturn, Neophron Percnopterus. Of 
the two Vultures which have been included, both 
perhaps on rather slight grounds, in the number of 
British birds, we have to include the Egyptian Vul- 
ture in the list of Somersetshire birds, one specimen 
having been killed in October, 1825, by the Rev. A. 
Mathews, on the Quantock Hills, near the village of 
Kilve. Another bird nearly similar in appearance 
was observed at the same time, but though it re- 
mained in the neighbourhood a few days after its 
companion was killed, it appears to have been too 
shy to allow itself to be approached within gun- 
shot. 
I do not think it necessary to give a description 
of this bird, as it has so very slight a claim to be 
included even in the list of British birds.* 
« Since writing the above, I see another specimen has 
been taken in England, but not in this county. See ‘The 
Zoologist’ for 1868 (Second Series, p. 1456). 
