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[FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 

 No. II., JANUARY to APRIL, 1830.1 



A Description of the Birds inhabiting the South of 

 Africa. By ANDREW SMITH, M.D. Member of the 

 Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh ; 

 Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Jena, 



&c. 



[Continued from p. 17.] 



Genus. GYPABTUS. Storr. 



Caput, plurimum collum 

 que totum plumosa ; rostrum 

 subcrassum barbatum ; nares 

 barba setosa, opertce. B,e- 

 miges % da - et 3 tia - cequales 

 longissimce. Tarsi breves plu- 

 mosi; Rectrices 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 

 feathers equal, and the longest; 

 tarsi short and feathered ; tail 

 composed of twelve feathers. 



Vultur Lath. Briss. Meyer. Falco Gmel. 



1. GYPAETUS BARBATTJS. 

 of the Colonists. 



Cuv. Arend and Lammervanger 



Vultur barbatus et barbarus, Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. \,p. 3, 

 sp. 5 and 6. Vultur Leucocephalus, Meyer, Taschenb. Deut. 

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

 Brisson Orn. Edwards, t. 106. 



G. rostro niger ; capite et cervice subalbidus ; dorso et scap- 

 ulis fusco-nigricans ; subtus subfulvus ; iridibus duobus circu- 

 lis, interior eflavo, 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, covered 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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