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EGYPTIAN VULTURE. 
RA P TO RES. 
VULTURIDJE. 
EGYPTIAN VULTURE. 
VULTUR PERCNOPTERUS. 
PLATE II. 
Very little information is to be had in the works of 
the Continental naturalists with regard to the habits and 
propagation of this species. Temminck says that they 
are numerous on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees, but 
nowhere so abundant as in Africa, and that they breed 
in those precipices which are the most difficult of access. 
M. A. Moquin Tandon, of the Jardin des Plantes at 
Toulouse, who has kindly sent me a drawing of an egg 
of this species which is in his own collection and re¬ 
sembles the second figure of the plate, tells me that in 
1842 two nests of the Vidtur percnopterus were disco¬ 
vered in the vicinity of Arles on the Pyrenees each of 
which contained two eggs ; and that the following sum¬ 
mer a third nest was found on the Pic de St. Loup, 
near Montpelier, which had in it but one egg. 
Mr. Wolley obtained eggs of this species (from one 
of which the figure in my former edition was taken), 
during a visit to Tangier, from a dealer of the name of 
Favier, who assured him that the old bird had been shot 
from the nest in which was one of them. Mr. Wolley 
has sent me the following :—“ I was informed by M. 
Favier that the Vultur percnopterus makes its nest at 
the end of March in the crevices and caves of rocks, 
