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L'Herauit, Gard, Bouches-du-lilioae, L'Ariege. Lastly, Abbe Vincelot 

 records it as an accidental bird of passage m the department of Maine-et 

 Loire ; it arrives in April to breed in the above places, and leaves at the 

 end of the summer (Degland et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 13). Not common 

 in Savoy or Switzerland, and only comes during the summer, arriving with 

 the first days of March (Bailly). 



Spain. Very common in Andalucia and probably all other parts of Spain 

 in summer {Lilford) ; abundantly distributed near Gibraltar {Irby, B. 

 Glbr. p, 31) ; common in Southei-n Spain except in winter, when but few 

 remain (Saunders). 



Portugal. Common in the Sierra de Louza (Bocage) ; apparently rare 

 in Algarve {Rey, J.f. 0. 1872, p. 141). 



Balearic Isles. Mallorca, May 2 (Von Homey er). 



Italy. Salvador! states that it is resident in the district of Nice in the Siena 

 Maremma, especially about Cape Argentaro, where Save found it breeding, 

 and in the Roman Campagna. It seems to run down the west coast j but 

 to the east of the Apennines it does not occur, with the exception of a 

 single example at Taranto. It is found in the mountains of the Neapo- 

 litan districts; and recent investigations have shown, according to Prof. 

 Doderlein, that it is by no means rare, although somewhat local, in the 

 island of Sicil}', in the mountainous districts of which it nests. Said to be 

 pretty common on the Monte Argentaro and in the Siennese Maremma, 

 but does not occur near Pisa (Giglioli). 



Malta. Merely an accidental visitor (PP>^^Af). 



Austrian Empire. Appears to be not so rare in Southern Hungary. Herr 

 O. von Hermann obtained three specimens on the 12th of July near Brazias 

 (Von Tschusi, J.f. O. 18/4, p. 341). 



Turkey. " In the Pravidy valley, in the neighbourhood of Shumlaj and 

 wherever the hills show a broken face of rock, there I found this Vulture 

 pretty abundant ; but in the open country and wooded districts, though 

 occasionally to be met with, it is comparatively scarce ; arrives in March, 

 leaves in October" (Farman) ; plentiful in Bulgaria (Elwes and Buckley) ; 

 abundant in and about Constantinople in spring and summer (G. C. Taylor, 

 Ibis, 1872, p. 228); common in spring in Turkey, arriving by thousands 

 (Alleon). 



Greece. Very common in summer on the mainland (Albania &c.); breeds 

 in Corfu and in Epirus ; first observed at Prevesa, in the Gulf of Arta, on 

 the 15th of March, 1857 (Lilford); Dobrudscha (Hudleston). 



Crimea (Pallas). 



Asia Minor. Not rare near Smyrna, arriving in March [Kruper, J.f. 0. 

 1869, p. 22). 



Palestine. Universally disti'ibuted throughout Palestine in summer 

 (Tristram); strictly migratory ; plentiful in Gilead and Moab (Tristram). 



Egypt. Extremely abundant throughout Egypt and Nubia (Shelley) ; 

 breeds among lofty crags along the banks of the Nile '\n'Nub'm(Leith Adams). 



