THE GRIFFON VULTURE. 
VuLTurR FULYUS. Linn. 
Ir the Eagles are considered as bearing a close analogy 
to the more noble and perfect among the Carnivorous 
Quadrupeds, such as the Lion and the Tiger, which live 
in solitary grandeur and attack none but living victims, 
the Vultures may, with equal propriety, be regarded as 
the representatives of the Jackal, the Wolf, the Hyena, 
and other inferior animals of that Order, which hunt in 
packs and prey upon. carrion. Endowed like these 
animals with an extreme fineness of scent, they are 
attracted by the smell of dead, and more especially of 
putrid, carcases, at an immense and almost incredible 
distance ; and usually assemble in vast numbers to glut 
