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VULTURE, GRIFFON or FULVOUS. 
VuLTuR FULVUS, Zemm. 
Only in one instance have we any record of the 
capture of this species of Vulture in the United 
Kingdom. ‘This specimen was taken in 1843, in 
Cork Harbour, and is now in Trinity College, 
Dublin. The Griffin Vulture is not uncommon in 
France, Germany, and the Pyrenees, where it builds 
its nest, which is of immense size, on high and 
almost inaecessible rocks. -The female lays two 
or three elongated white eges. 
W AGP AVL. (GRY: 
Moracitia Boaruna, Lin. 
The Grey Wagtail, as a species, is far less nume- 
rous than the Pied Wagtail. With some excep- 
tions it may be considered in this country as a 
summer visitor to the more northern counties, 
migrating in autumn as a winter visitor to those 
of the south. It frequents the margins of streams, 
pools, and lakes, and is generally distributed in the 
lower and more cultivated parts. It breeds on 
the shelves of those rocky precipices that so often 
form the banks of our northern rivers. ‘The nest is 
