436 The Bearded Vulture 
In nests I have visited I have found fragments of the limbs 
of sheep, goats, cows, donkeys and other animals with the frac- 
tured and splintered bones of the tibia or femur projecting from 
the dried hide covering the lower portion. By no other means 
save by a fall could these heavy bones have been thus broken 
open, for powerful as is the beak of the Bearded Vulture, it is 
not strong enough to shatter such bones. 
