( 4 ) 

 THE CONDOR. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill ftrait, hooked at the tip. 



Head commonly bare of feathers, with a naked fkin in front. 



Tongue bifid. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Black Vulture, with the fhorter wing-feathers white ,- the head furnifhed 

 with an upright comprefled flefhy creft or comb, the throat naked and 

 red ; the neck carunculated on each fide. 



The Magellanic Vulture. Mus. Lez'. No. i. /. 4. pi. i. 



TN the defcription of this fpecies in the firfl: Number of the prefent work, 

 I had fome reafon to doubt whether the fpecimen there figured could be 

 confidered as the real V^ultur Gryphus of Linnaeus, or genuine Peruvian Con- 

 dor ; from the circumftance of its wanting the crifi:a compreffa, or ered: fhar- 

 pened crefl: or comb on the head, which makes fo confpicuous a figure in 

 the flight defcriptions which have commonly been given of that bird by tra- 

 vellers and naturalifts, and which Linnaeus had fixed upon as the principal 

 character of the fpecies ; for which reafon it was thought advifable to dif- 

 tinguifti it by a different name. The magnificent fpecimen, however, now 

 delineated, and which was brought from the Magellanic coafl:s by Captain 

 Middleton of the Royal Navy, and foon after introduced into the Leverian 



Mufeum, 



