8 CINEREOUS VULTURE. 
has been observed in Russia, in Provence and Lan- 
guedoc, and in Sardinia. M. Schinz says that he did 
not find it in Switzerland; neither has it been found 
there by M. Tscharner, who lives near Berne. It is 
found rarely in Germany and Dalmatia. A large flock, 
according to M. Degland, was observed to pass over 
the environs of Angers in October 1839; a larger 
number haying been observed at the same place and 
season two years before. Both flocks appeared to come 
from the northward, and to wend their way towards 
the Pyrenees. It occurs in India and Egypt, but 
according to Dr. Riippell, it is not found in Africa. 
Like most of its tribe, the Cinereous Vulture feeds 
upon carrion. M.Temminck says that it does so ex- 
clusively, and that it flies away in fear from the 
smallest live animal. Bechstein, on the contrary, says 
that it attacks m the winter, hares, sheep, goats, and 
even deer. It can detect its food from a great distance, 
probably by its acute vision equally with its supposed 
exalted sense of smell. 
It builds among the most inaccessible rocks. ‘The 
nest is of large size, and made of branches, boughs, 
and small sticks. It lays two large eggs, pointed alike 
at both ends; of a dirty white, without spots, and a 
rough surface——(Degland.) This description is taken 
from an egg found in the Hautes Pyrenees, which is 
in the collection of M. Moque Tandon. 
In the “Revue de Zoologie,” for 1854, M. Jaubert 
remarks:—‘The V.arrian breeds in small numbers in 
the Pyrenees, where it lives in isolated pairs, never 
mingling at that epoch with the flocks of Griffons. Its 
eggs, collected personally by Captain Locke, are very 
large, with a rough and hard surface, of a more or 
less pure white.” M. Temminck observes that there is 
