ORNITHOLOGICAL SKETCHES 
FROM 
SPAIN. 
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THE BEARDED VULTURE 
(Gypaétus barbatus). 
AFTER many difficulties we succeeded in finding a nest of the 
great Bearded Vulture (Gypaétus barbatus) in the mountains 
of Spain. 
I had rambled with some fellow-travellers through several 
tracts of that country where it was said to be tolerably 
common, but nowhere had we managed to see one of these 
interesting birds, not to speak of finding a nest. At last, 
after a great deal of trouble, we were enabled to explore an 
eyrie of this Vulture-Hagle in the mountains of the Sierra 
Nevada, by the help of a German resident in Granada. 
Setting out from that town, we went a long way up the valley 
of the Genil, then turned aside into a narrower valley, and after 
a ride of nearly five hours reached a little hacienda (or farm, 
as we should call it), situated at a considerable elevation on 
the side of a big hill. 
