PLATE I. 



THE TAWNY VULTURE. 



GENUS VULTURj LIN. SYST. 121. PENNANT'S GEN. BIRDS. I. 



SIZE, Length two feet four inches, as I nieafured it at the 



Mufeum of the Royal Society. 

 BILL, diifky, fliort, and thick, cere, large, thick and 



briftled. 

 NOSTRILS, fmall, placed obliquely near the edge of the bill. 



Space between the bill and the eyes naked; reft 



of the head covered with feathers. 

 CHIN, bearded with a tuft of long flender feathers. 



HEAD, NECK, BACK, BREAST, BELLY, and THIGHS, of a palc 



tawny colour. 



COVERTS of the WINGS mixed with brown. 



TAIL, long and rounded, of a dirty white, barred with 



narrow oblique ftrokes of brown. 



LEGS, long, llender, and bluilh. claws, long, llightly 



bent. 



CHARACTER, thick bill, llender legs. 



PLACE, the Falkland Illands. Drawn from a fpecimen 



in the museum of the Royal Society. This col- 

 Icvflion was entirely negledlecl, and was falling 

 faft to decay, till of late years, when it w^as 

 reftored, or rather refounded, by the indefati- 

 gable pains of the hon. daines barrington. 



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