In some external characters the lammergeyer is intermediate between the families Vulturidae and Falconidae, and the opinion of systematists has from time to time varied as to its proper position.
Amidst these ruinous streets were a few Black Chats, and on a shoulder of the hill a solitary Blue Rock-Thrush; a small eagle was sweeping over the slopes, but not a sign of the Lammergeyer could we see.
Thus it happens that while in a range of sierra inhabited by Griffons, the Lammergeyer will not be found, yet a pair of the latter usually have their eyrie at no great distance from the vulture-colony.
On some precipitous rocks adjoining one of our posts to-day was an eyry of some large bird of prey--either a lammergeyer or some eagle, whose young brood kept up a plaintive, chattering wail while we were there.
To us Granada has rather been merely a "base of operations" whence the ibex and lammergeyer might conveniently be studied or pursued.
Some naturalists now seem inclined to go to the other extreme, and to regard the Lammergeyer as merely a huge Neophron.
To the Lammergeyer tradition has assigned some romantic attributes, and a character of wondrous dash and daring.
Only three days before, he asserted with vehement emphasis, he had witnessed a Lammergeyer strike down a week-old kid, its mate meanwhile driving off the dam.
This is the evidence of one who has seen more of the Lammergeyer than any other living naturalist, and it is for this reason that, contrary to our practice, we have accepted what may be called hearsay evidence.
Like the great black wings of that lammergeyer of the air, it has closed down about my poor pueblo.
Nothing moved in the leaden, glacial, desolate reaches save an immense lammergeyer that hovered on slow wings over its high eyrie like some black dragon of morbid fancy.
Ten minutes later a lammergeyer afforded a second glorious spectacle, speeding through space on pinions rigidly motionless, but strongly reflexed, as is usual on a descending gradient.
Our principal object this year was to sketch the lammergeyer in life, and in this several rough portraits serve to show that we succeeded--so far as in us lies.
Later a griffon-vulture (a species rarely seen in Neváda) passed overhead, and then a second lammergeyer sailed up the gorge of Monachil.
Hardly had we left our quarters than a lammergeyer soared overhead, then, gently closing his giant wings, plunged into a cavern above.
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