. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms;. Zoology; Birds; Reptiles; Fishes. BIRDS OF PREY AND Laboratory ol urnitnology 159 Sapsucker Woods Ro»fl Cornell University Ithaca. New York 1485P OWLS 79 horizon in vain for a sign of tliesc birds, )'et, shoald a camel from a caravan fall out and die, or men fall in warfare, within an incredibly shrirt space of time a crowd of \-iilturcs would be squabbling over the dead. Some held that the vulture was guided by scent, others by sight, and this latter view is ncnv almost unix'crsally accejited. The bird's natural liabi
. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms;. Zoology; Birds; Reptiles; Fishes. BIRDS OF PREY AND Laboratory ol urnitnology 159 Sapsucker Woods Ro»fl Cornell University Ithaca. New York 1485P OWLS 79 horizon in vain for a sign of tliesc birds, )'et, shoald a camel from a caravan fall out and die, or men fall in warfare, within an incredibly shrirt space of time a crowd of \-iilturcs would be squabbling over the dead. Some held that the vulture was guided by scent, others by sight, and this latter view is ncnv almost unix'crsally accejited. The bird's natural liabit of soaring at an immense height enables it to survey not only immense tracts of countr)', but the actions of its neighbours soaring at the same altitude, thijugh perhaps miles away. So soon as one descries food it betra\'s the fact by its actions, making off in tlie direction of the prospective feast; it is tJien followed immediately by its yet more distant neighbour, and this by a third, and so the first serves as a guide to all the other soaring birds for miles around. This flight has been admirably expressed by Long- fellow in " ; We need here mention only one or two of the more important species of vulture, and among these one of the most interesting is the L.\M-MKF<GEIR, or Bearded Vulture. This species is one of the least \'ulturc-like of the tribe, not only in general appear- ance, but also in habits, and is to be regarded as near the ancestral stock, whose descendants have bec(jme more and more addicted to feeding upon dead bodies. The lammergcir, or bearded vulture, is a bird of large size and majestic flight, differing from all other vultures in that the head and neck are clothed in feathers, whilst the nostrils are covered b}' long bristles. Beneath the bill hangs a tuft of bristles like those covering the nostrils; hence its name of Bearded Vulture ; and this, coupled with a remarkable red rim to the ej-es, gives the bird an almost diabolica
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