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NOUTII A.ME11K"AX IHRDS. 



time kept nlive. It was, liownvi-r, iiiipaticiit of cimfiiiciiu'iit, and suocuecled 

 ill teiiiiii^' (111! conl tiiat conliiiud liiiu rrniii lii.s li'<j;s, and in iiiakiii<,' liis escape. 

 Dr. Cooper also .saw one of liii'so Vidtiin-s in cmiliiuMiit'iit, at Moiiterev, in 

 llie ])o.sse.ssion of Dr. Cunliidd. Tlii.s wa.s u fidl-i;ri)\vn individual which ho 

 liad raisL'd from tiio nest. It had iiecn led exclusively on fre.sh meat, had 

 no offensive smell, and was clean and shining. It was yentle and familiar, 



Pfiudoitryphus rnlifnrninnus. 



but seemed stupid, and dozed most of the time on a fence. This was subse- 

 quently presented to the Zoijlotfical Society of Loudon, and formed the sub- 

 ject of our fij^ure. The figure of the young bird on the ne.xt page is taken 

 from a ])hotograph of the same specimen at an early age. 



T)r. Heermann, in his I{e]iort on Lieutenant Williamson's Survey, mentions 

 having observed this Vulture sading majestically in wide circles at a great 

 height, and ranging by its powers of flight over an immense sjjuce of coun- 



