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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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VULTURID^. 313
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THE EGYPTIAN VULTURE. NEOPHRON percn6pterus (Linnaeus). In October 1825 two birds of this species are said to have been observed near Kilve, Bridgewater Bay, Somersetshire, when one, which had been feeding on the carcase of a sheep, was shot, and proved to be in immature plumage. Another immature example was killed on September 28th 1868, in a farm-yard at Peldon, Essex, whither it had been attracted by the blood of some geese. The Egyptian Vulture has wandered to Norway and Germany, but its most northern nesting-places seem to be in Savoy; while further south it is not uncommon in summer, arriving in Provence and the Pyrenees early in March. It is usually seen in pairs and never breeds in colonies; but a couple or two are to be noticed near almost every mountain-range in the Spanish Peninsula, as well as in Southern Europe generally, especially in the basins of the Mediter- ranean, Black and Caspian Seas. To Madeira it is only a wanderer, but it inhabits the Canaries, the Cape Verde Islands, and North Africa from Morocco to the Red Sea; while in winter it goes as far as Cape Colony. From Asia Minor it can be traced to Persia and

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