The tawny-headed vulture (Vultur fulvus), and the ashy vulture (Vultur cinereus), with gray-brown mouth, and a brownish collar round his bare neck, are extremely rare in Switzerland.
But we now take leave of the eagle, and turn our attention to the lowly wren, whose charming but simple music has been described in charming but simple verse by Bishop Mant:—
"The quick note of the russet wren,
Familiar to the haunts of men;
He quits in hollowed wall his bower,
And through the winter's gloomy hour
Sings cheerily; nor yet hath lost
His blitheness, chilled by pinching frost,
Nor yet is forced for warmth to cleave
To caverned nook or straw-built cave,—