410 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 
Cinereous Vulture, having often seen that species in con- 
finement. 
On the same day, some hours later, I was driving through 
another part of the same forest when I saw a Cinereous 
Vulture sitting on the dead top of a gnarled old oak. It 
allowed the carriage to come up without moving, and did not 
fly off until a second trap, which was closely following us, 
reached the tree. Next day, however, there was nothing 
more to be seen of this rare visitor. 
The Cinereous Vulture only occurs in-the woods of the 
G6dllé estate at rare intervals. According to the perfectly 
trustworthy statements of the head forester Dittrich, it is 
always to be seen when an epidemic breaks out among 
the cattle. The Hungarian peasants have a bad habit of 
throwing the dead beasts outside the villages and of burying 
them either in a very slovenly fashion or not atall. This 
dainty food attracts the Vultures ; and it once happened that 
during a great murrain, some years ago, a keeper saw twelve 
of these birds collected round a carcass at the edge of a 
wood. 
In September of the year 1879 there occurred among the 
cattle an epidemic which was quite unimportant and confined 
to a single village. Again one of the keepers saw five 
Cinereous Vultures sitting on the old dead oaks of a thinly 
wooded hillside above that very village. 
This last case seems to me worthy of attention, and I can- 
not help asking myself how the Cinereous Vultures which 
appeared in the Gédollé district knew of this trifling outbreak 
of a disease which merely prevailed in one village; for in 
our country the true habitat of this bird only begins in Sla- 
vonia on the right bank of the Danube, while throughout 
Southern Hungary it is of very rare occurrence. Between 
this latter region, however, and the woods around Gédéllé 
there still intervenes a considerable distance. 
