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 VULTURE, GRIFFON OK FULVOUS. 



VULTUK, FULYUS, Temm. 



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 inaccessible rocks. The female lays two 

 or three elongated white eggs. 



WAGTAIL, GEEY. 



MOTACILLA BOAKULA, 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 



