On Travel and Other Things 27 
of force exerted by those 3-yard pinions. With slightly reflexed 
wings he sinks 1000 feet; then, shifting course, rises 2000, 3000 
feet till lost to sight over some appalling skyline. You have 
seen the long cuneate tail deflected ever so slightly—more gently 
than a well-handled helm—but the wide lavender wings remain 
rigid, not an effort that indicates force have you descried. Yet 
the power (so defined as ‘“‘ horse-power’’) required to raise a dead- 
Types oF SPANISH Brrp-LiFE 
BLACK VULTURE (Vultur monachus) 
Nests in the mountain-forests of Central Spain, and winters in Andalucia. Sketched in 
Coto Dofiana—‘ Getting under way.” 
weight of 20 lbs. through such altitudes can be calculated by 
engineers to a nike LOW is it exerted? That the power is 
there is conspicuous enough, and at least it serves to explain 
fabled traditions of giant lammergeyers hurling ibex-hunter from 
perilous hand-hold on the crag, to feast on the remains below ; 
or, in idler moment, bearing off untended babes to their eyries— 
wie that the duty of nature-students involves dissipating all 
such romance. 
Spain, as geologically designed, being, as to one-half of her 
