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[FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 
No. II., JANuARY to Aprit, 1830.] 
A Description of the Birds inhabiting the South of 
Africa. By Anprew Smita, M.D. Member of the 
Wernerian Natural History Society of Hdinburgh ; 
Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Jena, 
&e. . 
[Continued from p, 17.] 
* Genus.. GYPAETUS. Storr. 
Caput, plurimum collum\ Head and neck for the most 
que totum plumosa ; rostrum part covered with feathers; 
subcrassum barbatum ; nares beak moderately strong beard- 
barba setosa, operte.. Re-|\ed; nostrils covered by a hairy 
miges 27 et 3° @quales beard; second and third wing 
longissime. Tarsi breves plu- | feathers equal, and the longest; 
mosi; Rectrices 12. tarsi short and feathered ; tail 
composed of twelve feathers. 
Vultur Lath, Briss. Meyer—Falco Gimel. 
1. GyparTus BARBATUS. Owv.—Arend and Lammervanger 
of the Colonists. 
Vultur barbatus et barbarus, Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. 1, p. 3, 
‘sp. 5 and 6.—Vuitur Leucocephalus, Meyer, Taschenb. Deut. 
vi. p. 9.—Falco barbatus, Gmel. p. 252, sp. 38.— Vultur aureus, 
Brisson Orn.—Edwards, t. 106. 
G. vostro niger ; capite et cervice subalbidus ; dorso et scap- 
ulis fusco-nigricans ; subtus subfulvus; iridibus duobus circu- 
lis, interiore flavo, exteriore rubro. 
Bill black ; head and cervix dirty sallow white; circle round 
the eyes, and space between them, and bill covered with a 
deep black hair as well as each side of lower mandible, at 
base, also some similar hair under the bill, which is in the 
form of a large tuft pointing forwards; irides of two colors, 
viz.: yellow towards pupil, and fine red towards circumference ; 
front and part of sides of head behind eyes, as well as base of 
lower mandible, coyered with a dense white down; rest of 
head and cervix dusky white, faintly tinged with rufous; 
back and shoulders dusky, inclining to black, the centres of 
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