THE IBIS. 
FOUETH SEEIES. 
No. V. JANUARY 1878. 
I .—A Contribution to the Ornithology of Asia Minor. 
By C. G. Danford. 
[Continued from ‘The Ibis/ 1877, p. 274, and concluded.] 
1. Gypabtus barbatus (L.). Lorru, Kel lorru. 
This bird is so common throughout the Taurus that hardly 
a day passed without our seeing some of them, as they either 
methodically beat the sides of the ravines or swooped about 
the villages, hankering after skeletons which had been picked 
bare by Ravens and Griffon-Vultures. Such a meal seems 
best suited to their taste, and they spend days in breaking up 
perfectly dry bones. How they get the great jagged bits 
down their throats is hard to understand; but that they do 
succeed in swallowing broad pieces more than four inches 
long, was proved by the dissection of their large and long but 
not muscular stomachs, which were filled with such fragments, 
in addition to pieces of hoof, mats of wild-pig^s hair, collec¬ 
tions of vultiire^s toes, locusts, and a good deal of grass-root. 
The eJffiect of this diet seems to be to free the bird entirely 
from the offensive smell of Vultures proper. 
The Lammergeyer begins breeding in the Taurus about the 
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