CATALOGUE. 
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althougli slow and tortuous, enables tliem to ascend to prodigious 
heights, to which the eye cannot follow them ; from which they 
descend on the objects of their attraction in a similar manner. 
Their organs of smell and of sight are extremely perfect. They 
never attack living animals, and except when employed in feeding on 
a dead carcase, the smallest animal can put them to flight. 
The genus Grypaetus, Vulture-Eagle, forms a natural connecting 
link between the Vultures and the true Eaptorial birds. In its 
general attitude, the loose plumage on the head, the form of the 
beak, the structure of the claws, and especially in the habit of 
occasionally feeding on carrion or dead animal matter, it agrees 
with the Vultures : while in its inherent boldness of character, and 
in its raptorial disposition, it approaches the true Falcons and Eagles. 
The most favourite food of the Gypaetus is obtained by the chase : 
it attacks and carries off small quadrupeds of every description, lambs 
(hence Lammergeyer in German), wild goats, mountain hares, young 
deer, calves, &c. Oken mentions several authentic cases of its having 
carried off children in the mountainous parts of Switzerland, and 
Lieutenant Eisher informed Bishop Heber that the same feat had 
occurred in the streets of Almorah. 
Subfam. GYPAETINiE, Bonap, 
Genus Gypaetus, Storr, Alpenreise, p. 69 (1781). 
Syn. VuLTUE, Linn. 
Phene, Savigny, Besc, de VEgyp. H. N. 1, p. 18 (1809). 
10. GYPAETUS BARBATUS, Linn. Sp. 
Vultur barbatus, Linn. S. iV. I. p. 123. Fall.y Zoogr. 
I. p. 372, t. 13. Lath., Hist. I. p. 35. 
Gypaetus barbatus, Cuv., Beg. An. (1817), I. p. 308. 
Temm., Fl. Col. 431. Hutton, Journ. A. S. B. III. 
p. 522. Hodgs., J. A. S. B. IV. p. 454. Bennett, 
Gard. Menag. Zool. Soc. Aves, p. 177. G. B. Gray, 
Gen. of Birds, I. t. I. p. 2 ; Cat. Birds, B. M. p. 1. 
Hodgs., Cat. of Nep. Birds, p. 37. Blyth, Cat. Birds, 
Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 33. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 11. 
Gypaetus grandis, Starr, deg. Ucc. I. ^. 11. 
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