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Dr. Erhard states that it breeds in the Cyclades, but leaves before the winter. Lindermayer, 

 however, says that it is found during the whole year, and especially during the winter, when it 

 frequents- the plains, and he found it breeding in Attica from Corinth to Livadia, procuring 

 both eggs and young. Lord Lilford thinks that he saw it on the Ionian Islands, and writes as 

 follows : — " I once, and once only, observed a very large black-looking Vulture engaged on the 

 remains of a horse near Butrinto, in the winter of 1857. It certainly was not Gyps fulms. The 

 Corfu bird-preserver told me that he had seen a Black Vulture from the mainland, but that it 

 was very rare." 



Bespecting the range of the Cinereous Vulture in the Austrian dominions, Count von Tschusi 

 Schmidthofen informs us that " it is rarer than the Griffon, and occurs but seldom in the northern 

 and western portions of the dominion. In Bohemia one was killed at Koniggratz in 1833, and 

 in 1854 one, out of a large number, was killed on the Georgsberg, near Raudnic, and another 

 was obtained alive near Leitomischl (Dr. Fritsch, J. f. 0. 1871, p. 175). In the Franzens Museum 

 at Briinn, there is a specimen obtained in June 1837 in the Klobouker district (Brunner Kreis), 

 and Von Huber obtained one in 1840 at Steinburg, in Karnthen. In Styria it has only been 

 observed in the southern part of the country, one having been obtained on the 13th July, 1844, 

 near Pettau (Seidensacher, Naum. 1858, p. 467). In Siebenbiirgen it is not rare, either in the 

 mountains or the plains, and generally occurs in large companies, not unfrequently walking 

 about amongst the cattle. In Galicia, according to Count Casimir Wodzicki, it breeds C?) in 

 the High Tatra, and is sometimes seen near the villages in the winter. The Count met with five 

 in the Sambor district, which were feeding on a carcass, and were so tame that two were knocked 

 down, one killed and the other winged. One was shot on the 24th of August, 1861, at the 

 village of Ludzimierz, near Noroglarg ; and Schauer, of Lemberg, obtained one which had been 

 winged. In the Cracow Museum there are two adult specimens. In 1835 twenty-five appeared 

 near the small town of Sokal, and one, a brown one ( V. fulvus), was shot ; and the same year 

 almost all the cattle in that district died of the cattle-plague, so that on many farms there 

 remained scarcely a single head. In Hungary it has been observed near Ofen by Pelenyi, and 

 Baron Loberstein writes that it is common in the south ; and Dr. A. Fritsch often saw it in the 

 Banat." Captain Elwes found it common in Macedonia and Bulgaria ; in the former country it 

 was numerous on the plains in February, when he frequently saw it in parties of five or six 

 individuals. 



It is very numerous on the Southern Danube, where Dresser often had opportunities of 

 observing it. In Southern Russia Professor Nordmann only noticed it on the steppes of Bess- 

 arabia, where it is numerous, and where it also winters. He states that it probably occurs in 

 the Crimea, and that the Moldavians say that it breeds in the Carpathians. 



Canon Tristram writes that it is " by no means common in Palestine ; but a few appear to 

 be scattered over the country, living generally in the neighbourhood of, but not exactly in com- 

 pany with, the Griffons, from which, on the wing, they are not easily distinguished, unless the 

 two species be seen flying in company. During the winter we observed it once or twice in 

 Central Palestine — but only once during our long sojourn near the Dead Sea, when a solitary 

 bird of this species was put up near the top of a mountain behind Engedi. We never afterwards, 

 not even in the Lebanon, observed this noble bird." 



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