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is very tame and fearless." Mr. Saunders remarks (Ibis, 1871, p. 57) that during the breeding- 

 season he never saw an immature bird in the mountains, nor amongst the hundreds which 

 frequent the cattle-pens in the plains (called rejiles, whence its name Rejilero) did he ever find 

 any but birds of the first or second year. 



In Italy, according to Salvadori, the Egyptian Vulture is resident in the district of Nice, 

 the Siennese Maremma, the Romagna, and in many parts of Sicily, in which island, however, 

 Doderlein says, it generally occurs on passage, and is not common. Mr. C. A. Wright records 

 it (Ibis, 1864, p. 44) as a rare and accidental visitor to Malta, and adds that a specimen in his 

 collection was killed on the east coast of that island on the 30th September 1861. It proved 

 to be a female, and appeared to be a bird of the year. 



In Greece, according to Lindermayer and Von der Miihle, it is tolerably numerous, arriving 

 about the end of April (old style) in the northern portion of the country, remaining there to 

 breed, and leaving again about the middle of September. Dr. Kriiper, however, remarks 

 (J. f. O. 1862, p. 361) that it always arrives a month earlier than the Cuckoo, usually appearing 

 in the Parnassus from the 19th to the 27th March. Lord Lilford writes (Ibis, 1860, p. 2), it 

 is "very common in summer on the mainland. A pair bred in 1857 in a low sea-cliff near 

 Ptelia, about seven miles from Corfu, across the channel which separates the island from Albania, 

 or more properly Epirus. I have been assured that it also breeds on San Salvador, in the island 

 of Corfu. The first I recognized was near Prevesa, in the Gulf of Arta, on the 15th of March, 

 1857. I have never observed them later than the beginning of September, and I never saw a 

 specimen except in the white adult plumage." 



In Southern Germany this Vulture is rare. Von Pelzeln states that there is a specimen in 

 the Vienna Museum from Dalmatia. It occurs sometimes in the Banat ; but, as the Ritter von 

 Tschusi-Schmidhofen informs me, is one of the rarer birds of that district. He further states, 

 however (J. f. 0. 1874, p. 340), that it is more frequent in Southern Hungary, as Von Hermann saw 

 three individuals feasting on a carcass near Bazias on the 12th June. It is certainly found in 

 tolerable abundance in Wallachia ; for I frequently observed individuals quartering the ground in 

 search of food when travelling near Orsova, and further in the interior of the country, and noticed 

 it also on several occasions in the mountains of Servia. I may further add that Messrs. Danford 

 and Harvie-Brown record (Ibis, 1875, p. 291) that in Transylvania it is " very rare, but has been 

 occasionally seen in the lowlands in autumn ; and the young have, according to Herr Buda 

 Adam, been brought from the mountains near Hatzeg. Herr Buda Elek came across one on the 

 carcass of a sheep at Russ; and in 1860 Herr Buda Adam saw one on the banks of the Strell. 

 Both these observations were made in summer." Mr. C. Farman, who met with it in Bulgaria, 

 writes (Ibis, 1868, p. 409) : — " In the Pravidy valley, the. neighbourhood of Shumla, and wherever 

 the hills show a broken face of rock, there I found this Vulture pretty abundant ; but in the 

 open country and wooded district, although occasionally to be met with, it is comparatively 

 scarce. It arrives here early in March, leaving again about the end of October. Niclification 

 commences somewhat later than with Gyps fulvus, and not much before the beginning of April, as 

 a rule, but varies slightly with the season. In confinement I found this a very dull and sheepish 

 sort of a bird." Mr. E. C. Taylor says that it is abundant in and about Constantinople in spring 

 and summer, and breeds on the ruined walls and towers of Stamboul. 



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