NESTS AND EGGS 
OF 
BRITISH BIRDS. 
GRIFFON VULTURE. 
PLATE I. 
Gyps fulvus, 5 : 5 : ‘ Gray. 
Gyps vulgaris, : : é : . SAvVIGNy. 
Vultur fuivus,  . : : : 5 GouLp. 
WHATEVER is to be known of the nidification of the 
Griffon Vulture, can only, by us, be learned from 
extraneous sources—one single specimen alone having 
been ever as yet met with in this country; and, as it 
has sagely been remarked that it takes two persons to 
make a quarrel, so it may with equal truth be affirmed 
that it takes two birds to make a nest. But to return 
from this digression. The Griffon Vulture, so we learn, 
chooses for the place of its eyrie the loftiest and most 
inaccessible precipices, or the highest trees. Conscious, 
as it were, of its bemg obnoxious to many acquired 
enemies, it takes the precaution of placing its family in 
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