of the wild birds are much abraded by attrition on the 
rocks.” It appears to me, therefore, that it is eminently 
a bird whose admission to the list is open to the objections 
which are brought against many of those rejected. How- 
ever, it is admitted by the Compilers of the British Orni- 
thologists’ Union List, on whose Committee many of our 
first-class authorities appear; by Professor Newton, in his 
edition of Yarrells birds; by Mr. Seebohm, in his History 
of British Birds. 
THE EGYPTIAN VULTURE. 
(VuLTUR PERCNOPTERUS. ) 
Admitted to the B.O.U. Last. 
Admitted by Newton. 
Admitted by Seebohm. 
The first record of the occurrence of this bird, I think, 
fairly removes it from the list of probable escapeds, for the 
reason that when the Somersetshire bird was shot in 1825, 
another bird, sapposed to have been its mate from the 
fact that it did not for some few days quit the neighbour- 
hood, had been seen in its company: it seems most im- 
probable that any keeper could manage to lose doth of 
his valuable birds a¢ the same time. In addition also toa 
second occurrence in Essex, Mr. Mudie, in his ‘ Feathered 
Tribes,’ states that two dirds of this species were seen at 
Bridgewater in 1826. It seems, therefore, to be with 
propriety that the authorities have admitted this bird to 
the British list, yet zot as a British btrd. 
HIEROFALCO. 
Our authorities seem to be at variance whether two, or 
three species stand upon the British list. 
