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end, a few blackish-brown feathers, some tipped with dull buffy-brown, are appearing; wings and tail 

 just appearing, the feathers on the latter being about five inches long; quills of wing and tail blackish 

 brown ; wing-coverts with a large, dull, light brown spot on the terminal part of the feathers ; on each 

 side of the abdomen a line of dark brown feathers, tipped broadly with huffy white. 



Nestling (Sardinia, 18th April). Covered entirely with dull, sooty, yellowish -buff down, tinged with sooty 

 grey on the head and neck, and with pale rusty yellow on the sides of the rump ; a few dark brown 

 feathers just appearing on the wings; and on the part where the tail grows a small bunch of dull 

 brown downy feathers just showing. 



The Bearded Vulture is found only in the high mountain-ranges of the Pyrenees and Alps, in 

 Africa only in the Atlas range, and eastward extends to India, where it occurs in the North- 

 western Himalayas ; and it has likewise been met with in China. 



In Portugal it has not been recorded by Professor Barboza du Bocage, and the Rev. A. C. 

 Smith did not meet with it ; but Dr. Key informs us that it breeds not uncommonly in that 

 country. In Spain it is probably more numerous than in any other country in Europe, not 

 having been so much molested there as in Switzerland. Lord Lilford and Mr. Howard Saunders 

 both record its occurrence in Spain ; and the former writes to us as follows : — " Since writing the 

 papers on Spanish ornithology (Ibis, 2nd series, vols. i. & ii.), in which I make mention of this 

 bird, I have met with it in a very different part of the country, viz. Navarra and Aragon. In the 

 former province there is an eyry of this bird in one of the stupendous crags known as Las Dos 

 Hermanas, at the entrance of a gorge of the Lower Pyrenees, some miles to the westward of 

 Pamplona. We visited this locality in May 1867, when the young bird had left the nest, as we 

 were informed, more than three months previously ; but we had a good view of one of the parent 

 birds, a splendid specimen, with deep rufous breast and neck, sailing round the crags with wings 

 outstretched and motionless, in strong contrast to some thirty or forty Griffon Vultures, which 

 flapped heavily from one ledge to another ; I heard on good authority that this nest was harried 

 several times by the late Captain Loche, but that a pair of Lammergeyers continued to nest every 

 year almost in the same spot — as far as I could make out, a small cavern about a third of the 

 height of the southern face of the eastern crag from its summit. The people of the village 

 below assured us that the birds had bred there from time immemorial, that they did no harm, 

 i. e. never carried off lambs, kids, or fowls, and only fed on dead beasts with the Vultures ; they 

 distinguished this species as ' Grifo,' by which name I found it was also known throughout the 

 province of Aragon, where I saw it on several occasions. I imagine that the Lammergeyer 

 seldom leaves the vicinity of the hills, though I know of one or two instances to the contrary, 

 e. g. a fine specimen killed close to the city of Valencia, which I saw in the Museum there. 

 I imagine that in the Alps of Switzerland, Savoy, and Northern Italy any bird of prey is pointed 

 out by the guides to tourists as ' Le Gypaete,' as I have been several times assured of the 

 abundance of this bird in some localities of the above-named countries where a genuine Gypaetus 

 would in fact ' astonish the natives ' as much as a comet. I did, however, meet with this bird in 

 the Italian Alps, not far from Aosta, in 1858." 



In France the Bearded Vulture is found only in those parts bordering on the Swiss Alps, 

 where it is found still, though it will ere long, we fear, be extinct there also. A most exhaustive 



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