EGGS OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
RAPTORES. 
VULTURTDJE. 
GRIFFON VULTURE. 
VULTUR FULVUS. 
PLATE I. 
The occurrence of a solitary specimen of this bird 
in Ireland was communicated to Mr. Yarrell, who has 
figured it in a Supplement to his “ British Birds.” Of its 
habits during the breeding season we have the best 
account from the pen of Le Vaillant, who, when de¬ 
scribing another species of Vulture which he calls I’Ori- 
cou, tells us that the same description is equally applicable 
to the Griffon Vulture, which he names Chasse-fiente, and 
which he says is much the more numerous of the two, 
although they both lay the same number of eggs, two, 
for the most part, but sometimes, though rarely, three ; 
that they resort, in the breeding season, in great numbers 
together, to rocks in the most elevated situations, and 
that a single precipice will contain as many nests as there 
are convenient places to receive them; that the birds live 
very amicably together, and that he has seen three nests 
placed side by side in the same cave ; that during the 
time of incubation the male bird stands sentinel at the 
mouth of the hole, thus pointing out the position of its 
nest, but that it is almost always inaccessible. He says, 
