care bestowed upon " Carlista," as I called my Griffon, 

 for it is still alive and well at Lilford as I write, — in 

 February 1893. This bird, since its arrival at Lilford, 

 has shared a compartment with a Cinereous Vulture 

 taken in Spain in 1865, and for many years past has 

 annually assisted this bird in making a nest, in which 

 the latter generally has deposited two or three eggs. I 

 am convinced that the Griffon has no share in the pro- 

 duction of these eggs, in fact, I am by no means certain 

 that it is not a female, but, as the end of February 

 approaches, it becomes quite as savage as its companion, 

 and only within the last few days I have been obliged 

 to remove a young Griffon received from Gibraltar last 

 summer, with whom both the Vultures just mentioned 

 have lived amicably hitherto. I believe, though I am 

 not certain of the fact, that these Vultures occasionally 

 carry off large bones to their haunts among the rocks, 

 and, letting them fall from great heights, devour the 

 fragments ; and I remember to have read a statement in 

 the ' Field ' some years ago to the effect that the writer 

 had watched some Griffons carrying on this performance 

 with tortoises in European Turkey, in a locality with 

 which I am well acquainted. If it were not for the 

 mention of the particular spot, and the number of birds 

 said to have been engaged in this manner, I should have 

 assumed that the writer was mistaken in his identifica- 

 tion, and that the tortoise-smashers were really Bearded 

 Vultures ( Gypaetus barbalus). 



