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preferring live prey to carrion, his activity, and every habit, seem 

 to bring him nearer to the eagle than to the vulture tribes. 



However this may be, it is probable this extraordinary bird is 

 not confined solely to South America. Some are of opinion, that 

 it is also to be found in Africa, Asia, and even in some parts of 

 Europe. Garcilasso imagines it to be the same bird with the roc, 

 so famous in the fables of the Arabian writers. Probably the great 

 bird mentioned in the voyages to the South Sea, which is said to be 

 nearly as large as an ostrich, is the same with the condor, The 

 bird of prey, in the neighbourhood of Tarnassar, in the East Indies, 

 and the vulture of Senegal, which carries off children, are of the 

 same species with that above described. Several authors mention 

 a similar bird, sometimes seen in Russia, Lapland, and Germany. 

 Buffon mentions a large bird shot in France, eighteen feet in 

 breadth, which he supposes to be the condor, not only on account 

 of its size, but of its pie colour, resembling those birds in Peru. 

 This naturalist deems it scarcely probable, that a bird which claims 

 the first rank in this class of beings, should be confined to a single 

 district of the earth. 



[Ray, Feuillee, Humboldt. Pantologia, 



SECTION II. 



Bulbul, or Jocose Shrike, 

 Laniusjocosus. Link. 



This bird is of the size of a lark, but varying in different indi- 

 viduals : colour above, brown; beneath, dull white, with the vent 

 pale crimson, or bright rose-colour: crown of the head black, 

 with a rising, finely-fibred crest in the middle: from the corners of 

 the bill on each side, a black stripe; beneath each eye a small 

 bright crimson spot, and across the breast a brown bar. Native 

 of China, India, Persia, &c. and sometimes called by the name of 

 bulbul: of a lively disposition, and agreeable manners. It has 

 been generally considered as the celebrated bulbul, or Persian 

 nightingale, so often commemorated in the works of Hafiz, Sadi, 

 and other Persian poets. This, however, seems not clearly ascer- 

 tained ; and the name bulbul, usually translated nightingale, seems 

 to be applied, in different parts of India and Persia, to very dif- 



