AVES. 
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Vultur fulvus . — The Fulvous Vulture. 
Plate XXXVI. fig. 1. 
Head and neck covered with white down; the bottom of neck 
surrounded by a thick ruff or collar, of upright, slender, pale 
ferruginous feathers; on the breast is a white spot; body and 
wings rich fawn-colour; tail blackish-brown ; beak dull yellow ; 
cere red; irides hazel; legs gray. Four feet long. Inhabits 
Europe, Asia, and Africa. 
Genus 2.— CATHARTES.— Illiger. 
Generic Character. —Bill long, straight, compressed, bent to¬ 
wards the point; cere naked, extending more than half the 
length of the beak; upper mandible tumid towards the tip ; 
head naked and oblong; upper part of the neck divested of fea¬ 
thers ; the nostrils nearly in the centre of the beak, close to the 
ridge of the upper mandible, cleft longitudinally, broad, and 
sometimes surmounted by fleshy appendages legs with the tar¬ 
sus naked, more or less slender; middle toe long, and united to 
the exterior one at the base. 
Cathartes gryphus. — The Condor. 
Plate XXXVI. fig. 2. 
Colour blackish-brown ; neck ruff, and a spot on the wings 
white ; upper caruncle rather large, not indented ; a wattle un¬ 
der the beak like that of the cock; female devoid of caruncles. 
Three feet three inches long; expanse of wings three feet nine 
inches. Inhabits South America. 
Genus 3.—GYP^ETUS.— Storr. 
Generic Character. —Beak long; upper mandible arched to¬ 
wards its tip, and hooked ; nostrils ovate, concealed by stiff re¬ 
flexed hairs ; feet short, with four toes, the three anterior united 
by a short membrane; the middle one considerably longer than 
the others ; talons slightly hooked ; wings long. 
