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O.fidvus group ; and therefore I relinquish the name G. hispanio- 

 lensis ; but at the same time the Spanish birds now alive in the 

 Zoological Gardens show no inclination to paler colouring as 

 they get older, but have the rufous coloration which induced 

 me first to separate them. I further stated my belief that 

 the Algerian Griffon (and probal)ly the bird from North-east 

 Africa also) would prove to be the same as Q. Mspaniolensis from 

 Southern Spain. As to their habits of wandering, Canon Tristram 

 says that during the Crimean war the Arabs believed that " the 

 Vultures from all ISTorth-east Africa were gathered together to 

 feed on Russian horses in the Crimea, and declare that very few 

 ^Nissr ' were to be seen in their accustomed haunts." Nor is the 

 Spanish Vulture free from these erratic habits ; for Mr. Howard 

 Saunders, writing of his trip to Southern Spain in 1868, says, " it 

 had been a bad year for Vultures generally (they were away in 

 Morocco feeding on Moors and E-ii£tes)." I depended a great 

 deal on the restricted habitat of G. Mspaniolensis as a special 

 feature ; but if the bird wanders as stated above, then it is worth- 

 less ; and moreover Mr. Gurney's researches (I. c.) tend to prove 

 that the value of the Spanish bird as a race is very doubtful. 

 Still the question is undoubtedly not yet settled, and a larger 

 series will be necessary to determine the matter. I may re- 

 mark, en passant, with regard to Mr. Gurney's statement that in 

 the event of G. Mspaniolensis proving distinct it must be called 

 G. occidenfalis, Bp., that this is certainly not so ; for Bonaparte's 

 name is taken from Schlegel's Vultur fulvus occidentalis, the types 

 of which exist at Leiden, and are inseparable from the East-Euro- 

 pean bird. Pyrenean specimens may be the same as Sardinian ; 

 but my G. Mspaniolensis, be it remembered, is the bird from 

 Southern Spain. 



Pal^arctic Region. 



Great Britain. Once, on the rocks near Cork Harbour. (For particulars, 

 see Newton's edition of Yarrell's ' British Birds.') 



France. Twice, in the department of the Seine Inferieure, in a plain at 

 Saint Remain de Colbose, and near Bolbec (Lemetteil). Of frequent oc- 

 currence in Provence, and occasionally in Languedoc, Dauphine, and the 

 north of France ; one killed near Armenbieres in July 1828, and a young 

 bird killed near Abbeville (Baillon); mountains of Provence, I'Ardeche, 

 the Pyrenees, and especially the Cevennes ; only a very accidental visitor in 

 Savoy in autumn and spring. The localities where it has been met with 

 are the mountains adjacent to Montiers, those of the Bauges, especially 



