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lant, under the name of " Le Clilncou," is described by him 

 (on the authority of its possessor) as having been brought from 

 China, the circumstance of such having been the case does not 

 seem by his account to have been ascertained with sufficient 

 precision to justify its being regarded as an ascertained fact. In 

 Africa, the Cinereous Vulture occurs in Morocco, Algeria, and 

 Egypt ; but I am not acquainted with any instance of its having 

 been met with further to the south, and although the Cape of 

 Good Hope is given as a locality for this species in the late Mr. 

 Strickland's work on " Ornithological Synonyms," I am dis- 

 posed to think that this must be an error. I may add that 

 the Vultur arrianus, of Des Murs' "Zoology of Abyssinia," 

 appears not to be this Vulture, but rather to refer to Gi/ps 

 ruppelli, which is worthy of remark as the specific name of 

 " Arrianus" is properly a syuonjon of the present species. 

 This Vultm-e feeds on carrion, and is said also to attack 

 lambs and other young animals. It has been observed 

 that the Griffon Vultures, when attracted to a carcase, give 

 precedence to this more powerful species. The nest of this 

 Vulture is placed on the rocks of mountain precipices, and is 

 composed of a large quantity of boughs and sticks. Monsieur 

 Malherbe, in his very useful book on " The Birds of Sicily," 

 says, with reference to the nidification of this species, " This 

 bird usually establishes its eyrie on the steepest and most in- 

 accessible rocks, and the female lays there two white eggs 

 spotted with brown towards the larger end, and also tinged 

 with clear rufous ; the young, when first hatched, are covered 

 with down of a light bay colour." A similar account of the 

 eggs of this Vultui'e, found in the Pyrenees, is contained in 

 Messieurs Jaubert andBarthelemyLapommcraye's work on "the 

 Birds of the south of France," and Dr. Jaubert, in an article in 

 the "Revue de Zoologie for 1854," speaks of the egg of this 

 species as differing from the eggs of Gyps fulvus in no respect 

 except in being perceptibly roimder. The Cinereous Vidtm'e 

 is not usually gregarious, though as many as five have been 



