IN THE NORWICH MUSEUM. IJ 
The Vultures are followed by the Leemmergeyers, of 
which there are two species differing very slightly 
from each other, and forming together the genus 
Gypaétus, a name which signifies Vulture-Eagle, and 
thus indicates the natural position of the Lammer- 
geyers, which, both as regards their form and habits, 
are intermediate between the Vultures and the typical 
Eagles. 
The Laemmergeyers inhabit the mountainous parts 
of Africa, and of many warm and temperate countries 
of Europe and Asia, and are much more in the habit 
of attacking living prey than are the true Vultures. 
One of the animals which they frequently devour is 
the tortoise, whose strong shell they contrive to 
shatter by carrying the reptile into the air and then 
dropping it on a rock or large stone; and it is re- 
markable that the ancient Greek tragedian, A‘schylus, 
is recorded to have lost his life by a tortoise having 
been thus dropped upon his bald head whilst he was 
sleeping in the open air in the Island of Sicily, a 
locality inhabited till recently by Lazmmergeyers, which 
still abound on the opposite shore of the Mediter- 
ranean, amongst the mountains of Northern Africa. 
From the genus Gyfaé/us we pass to that well- 
known and formidable group, the Eagles; commen- 
cing with those genera in which, as in Gyfaétus, the 
lower portion of the leg, called the tarsus, is clothed 
with feathers. 
The first of these, the genus Uvoaétus, contains but 
