[2911] “Heroum.”
[2912] The great European vulture.
[2913] Their nests are seldom seen, in consequence of being concealed in the crags of the highest mountains, the Pyrenees, for instance.
[2914] “Three” seems a better reading. Aristotle says “two.”
[2915] Ovid, in his “Art of Love,” speaks of the use of eggs in purifications made by lovesick damsels. See B. ii. l. 330.
[2916] This story arises from the extreme acuteness of their power of smelling a dead body. The Egyptians said that the vulture foreknows the field of battle seven days.
[2917] Festus says, also, that it is the ossifrage, and was so called from the god Sancus.
[2918] Aristotle says ten.
[2919] A mere fable. Cuvier says that the ægithus of Aristotle was probably a kind of sparrow.
[2920] Said to be three in number; a mere fable. The buzzard probably is meant.