434 Rev. A. C. Smith on the Birds of Portugal. 



2. tVuLTUR ciNEREUs, Gmel. Cinereous Vulture. " Pica- 

 osso." 



Sufficiently well known to enjoy a separate specific name in 

 Portuguese, a distinction only accorded to those birds habitually 

 met with. The title, however, which it has received seems by 

 some mischance to be usurped from another species, and to 

 belong of right to Gypaetus barbatus, at all events in the neigh- 

 bouring country of Spain. 



3. *Neophron percnopterus (Linn.) . Egyptian Vulture. 

 I failed to discover the Portuguese name of this bird, though 



I fell in with it on many occasions, and should call it common 

 in suitable districts. There is but one specimen in the Lisbon 

 Museum, an adult bird in miserable condition. 



These three species of Vulture seem to be scattered in small 

 numbers over the southern portions of Europe, as might be 

 expected from the immense flocks one sees of them in Egypt 

 and North Africa generally. I could hear nothing on inquiry 

 of the Lsemmergeier, Gijpaetus barbatus, though, as it is still 

 found in the Pyrenees, and Don Machado J says that it in- 

 habits the Sierra Morena in Spain, while Lord Lilford, in his 

 admirable papers on the Ornithology of Spain § speaks of it 

 as almost common in favourable localities in that country, I 

 should conceive it must be occasionally seen in the wilder parts 

 of northern Portugal, and in the savage regions of the Gei'ez 

 Mountains, where the Wolf and the Wild Boar abound, and the 

 Ibex is still occasionally found. 



4. fAQUiLA CHRYSAETUS (Linn.). Golden Eagle. " Aguia 

 real" 



Said to be extremely common in all the mountainous districts. 



X " Catalogo de las Aves, observadas en algunas provincias de Anda- 

 lucia, por D. Antonio Machado." Sevilla : 1854. 



§ Ibis, 1865, pp. 166-177; 1866, pp. 173-187, .377-392. I cannot 

 forbear to express the intense enjoyment with which I many times re- 

 read these most charming papers, which are enough indeed to make the 

 mouth of every ornithologist water, and send him off to Spain in hopes of 

 similar success. I sincerely trust Lord Lilford will shortly carry out his 

 proposal indicated at the close of his last paper, and that we shall have a 

 complete list of the birds of Spain from the same inimitable pen. 



