446 The Bearded Vulture 
danger of cramp may be fairly discounted since its quills were 
sprouting well. But then I remembered how | still lacked the egg 
of the Bearded Vulture for my collection, the only egg of all the 
ereat raptores which regularly inhabit Spain that I had not taken 
with mine own hands, and so | decided to leave the young bird 
unmolested in the hope that by doing so its parents might be 
induced to nest again in the same cliff next year, 
YOUNG! BEARDED VULTURE ATTACKS CAMERA. 
From photograph with magnifier at 127%n, distance. 
So I packed up my traps and, after signalling to my long- 
suffering and half-frozen friends above, took the strain on the rope 
and dropped on the ledge 30 ft. below, landing on the extreme 
outside edge of it. Previous to quitting the nest I had thrown out 
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