THE GRIFFON VULTURE 15 
Mr. Howard Carter, whose long connection 
with the work of the Antiquities of Egypt gives 
him the right to speak with authority, is now 
preparing for publication a book on this whole 
subject of the portrayal of animal life by Egyptian 
art, which is awaited with great interest, as he 
has given years of study to this one branch; and 
though I may ven- 
ture to say something 
now and again of the 
present-day birds, and 
their pictured present- 
ments in temples or 
tombs, the reader will 
do well to wait till 
Mr. Carter’s book is 
published before com- GYPS FULYUS—GRIFFON VULTURE. 
ing to too positive From a monument of Nectanebo in the Louvre. 
a conclusion on a rather vexed subject. Of the 
Vulture there is no doubt, but of which of the 
existing hawks was the model of the Hawk almost 
as frequently depicted as the Vulture few are 
agreed, and personally I can arrive at no very 
satisfactory conclusion. 
The Griffon Vulture is common now, and 
probably always has been. Its usefulness is 
