Show Bearded Vultures In the London Zoological society's eastern aviary there Is now living a splendid example of the lammergeyer or bearded vulture This species resembles the eagle in having the head covered with feathers It is a distinctly handsome bird and being without the bald head of the typical vultures lacks their repulsive re re- look In its habits and mode of life me it resembles the true vultures except perhaps that it Is rather more dainty in Ia its tastes Stories have been told of children carried off by the lammergeyer but they are highly im im- im probable In some countries it is called by a name meaning bone breaker from Its habit of carrying bones up in the air and nd dropping them from a great h height in order to get at the marrow It inhabits the mountainous regions of southern Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope and its range extends through h Asia Minor and the Himalayas to China |