MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 
ON 
ORNITHOLOGY. 
se 
L. 
ORNITHOLOGICAL research is a pursuit which I have often 
followed very keenly, and though I am well aware how slight 
and unimportant this collection of notes is, I solace myself 
with the hope that under much mud and sand there may lie a 
grain of gold which more able naturalists than I may consider 
valuable and capable of being turned to account. 
I will begin by devoting a few words to the group of the 
Raptorial birds. 
I have had frequent opportunities of both seeing and 
studying that huge and imposing bird the Cinereous Vulture 
(Vultur cinereus) in a state of freedom, and first met with 
it on a very mild snowless December day shortly: before 
Christmas. I was shooting foxes, with some other gentlemen, 
in the large forest of St. Kiraly, a few miles from the village 
of Godéllé in Central Hungary, when, just as the beaters were 
entering the cover, a large bird of prey rose slowly from the 
ground, and flying into the wood about two hundred paces 
from my post vanished from my sight. I knew that it was a 
