ACCIPITRES. pay 
a bluish violet. It is equally common with the preceding, and 
and is still larger, frequently attacking living animals. (1) 
V. auricularis, Daud.; Vaill. Afr. pl. ix. (The Oricou.) 
Blackish; a longitudinal fleshy crest on each side of the neck, 
above the ear. From Africa.(2) 
America produces Vultures remarkable for the caruncles which 
surmount the membrane of the base of their beak; the latter is as 
large as in the preceding species, but the nostrils are oval and lon- 
gitudinal. They constitute the Sarcorampuus of Dumeril.(3) 
Vult. papa, L.; Enl. 428; Viellot, Gal. 3; Jrubi Cha, Azz. 
(The King of the Vultures.) As large as a goose; blackish 
when young, (Spix. pl. 1) then variegated with black and fawn 
colour, (Vaill. Afric. 13) and finally, in the fourth year, has a 
fawn coloured mantle, and black quills and collar. The naked 
parts of the head and neck are vividly tinged, and the caruncle 
is denticulated like the comb of a cock. It inhabits the plains 
and other hot parts of South America. Its name is derived 
from the circumstance of the Urubus retiring, through fear, 
when he stoops upon a body which they have already begun to 
devour. 
Vult. gryphus, L.; Humb. Obs. Zool. pl. viii, and Tem. Pl. 
Col. 133 and 408. (The Condor.) Blackish; a great part of 
the wing ash coloured ; collar silky and white; the male, in 
addition to his superior caruncle, which is large and entire, has 
another under the beak, like the cock. While young, it is of a 
cinereous brown, and without acollar. The caruncles are defi- 
cient in the female, which is of a brownish grey. This species 
has been rendered famous by exaggerated reports of its size; it 
is, however, but a little larger than the Lemmer-geyer, to which 
it assimilates in habits. It is found in the most elevated moun- 
tains of the Andes in South America, and flies higher than any 
other bird. The 
Caruartres, Cuv.—GaALinazeEs, or CaTHARISTES, Viellot, 
Have the beak of the Sarcoramphus, that is, large, and with oval and 
(1) The V. monachus, Edw. 290 ; Vaill. 12 and Col. 13, only differs from the 
Brown Vuliure in the beak, which is somewhat shorter. The Crested Vulture (V. 
eristatus, Gm.) is only known to me by a bad figure of Gesner, probably taken 
from some species of Eagle. The V. barbarus is the same as the Lemmer-Geyer, 
Falco barbatus. 
A) The Pondicherry Vulture, Sonnerat, pl. cv, or V. ponticerzanus, Pl. Col. 2, 
is nearly allied to the Oricou. Its lateral crests do not ascend so high, and its 
beak is not so strong. 
(3) M. Vieillot has changed this name into Zoppilota or Gypagus. 
