FULVOUS, OR GRIFFIN VULTURE.— Gi/ps fulvKS. 



middle course, believe that the eyes and the nostrils give equal aid in this never-ending 

 duty of finding food, and many experiments have been made with a view to extracting 

 tlie real truth of the matter. The following account has been kindly transmitted to me 

 by Captain Drayson, RA., who has already contributed much original information to the 

 present work. 



" Having shot an ourebi early in the morning, and when about three miles from home, 

 I was not desirous of carrying the aninial behind my saddle during tlie day's shooting, and 

 I therefore sought for some method of concealment by which to preserve the dead quarry 

 from jackals and Vultures. An ant-bear's hole offered a very convenient hiding-place, 

 into which the buck was pushed, and the carcass was covered over with some grass cut 

 for the purpose. As usual in South Africa, there were some Vultures -wheeling roimd 

 at an enormoirs height above the horizon ; these I believed would soon come down 

 and push aside the grass and tear off the most assailable parts of the buck. There was, 

 however, no better means of protection, so I left the animal and rode away. When at 

 about a quarter of a mile from the ant-bear's hole, I thought that it might be interesting 

 to watch how the Vultures would approach and commence operations, so I ' off-saddled,' 

 and kept watch. 



