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5? SOUTH AFRICAN 



TERLY JOURNAL. 



A Description of the Birds inhabiting the South of 

 Africa. By Andrew Smith, M. D. Member of the 

 Werneria'n Natural History Society of Edinburgh ; 

 Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Jena, 

 &c. 



[Continued from' p. 17.] 



Genus. GYPAETUS. Storr. 



Caput, plurimum collitm 

 tjui' totum plumosa ; rostrum 

 subcrassiwi barbatum ; nares 

 barba setosa, opertte. Re- 

 miges 2^ a - et 3''»- cpquales 

 longissimcp. Tarsi breves plu- 

 mosi; Reclrices 12. 



Head and neck for the most 

 part covered with feathers ; 

 beak moderately strong beard- 

 ed ; nostrils covered by a hairy 

 beard ; second and third wing 

 feathei-s equal, and the longest ; 

 tarsi short and feathered ; tail 

 composed of twelve feathers. 



Vultur Lath. Briss. Meyer. — Falco Gmel. 



Gypaetus barb> 

 of the Colonists'. 



Cuv. — Arend and Lammervana'cr 



Vultur barbatus et barbarus, hath. Ind. Orn, vol. 1, p. 3, 

 sp. 5 and 0- — Vultur Leucocephalus, Jjfleyer, Taschenb. Dent. 

 vi. p. 9. — Falco barbatus, Gmel. p. 252, sp. 38. — Vultur aureus, 

 Brisson Orn. — Edwards, t. 106. 



G. rostro niyer ; capile cl cervice subalbidus ; dorso et soap- 

 ulis fusQO-nimicans ; subtus subfulvus; iridibus duobus circu- 

 its, interior e fiavo, extcriore 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, covered with a dense white down ; rest .of 

 head and cervix dusky white, faintly tinged with rufcta 



ck and shoulders dusky, inclining to black, the cetil 





