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BEARDED VULTURE. 
Rapages — DlURN^E. 
Family I.— VULTURID^. 
Genus II. — Gypaetus. (Storr.J 
Generic Characters. — Head and neck covered with feathers; claws slightly 
curved; beak very strong, upper mandible elevated and curved at the end; 
nostrils oval. Feet short, the three anterior toes united at their base by a 
membrane; middle toe very long. Wings long; first quill shorter than the 
second, the third longest. Vertebrae thirteen. 
BEARDED VULTURE. 
Gypaetus barbatus. 
Gypaetus barbatus, 
" leucoccphalus et melanocephalus, 
" aureus, 
Vultur barbatus, 
" niger et alpinus, 
" barbarus et barbatus, 
Falco barbarus et barbatus, 
Phene ossifraga, 
<< << 
Lammcrgeier or Bartalder, 
Avoltoio barbutio, 
Gypaeie barbu, 
Cuvier. Temminck. 
Gould. Schinz. 
Bonaparte. 
Meyer and Wolff. 
Ray. 
Linnaeus. 
Brisson. 
Latham. 
Gmelin. 
Savigny. Vieillot. 
Lesson. 
Of the Germans. 
Of the Italians. 
Of the French. 
Specific Characters. — Base of beak above as well as below covered with 
stiff hairs. Length four feet seven inches. — Degland. 
The Lammergeyer, or Lamb-slayer, is becoming one of the rarest 
birds of Europe, though at one time it was found in plenty by the 
chasseurs of the Swiss mountains and the Tyrol. Its predatory habits 
