CARRION VULTURE. 



riian the birds dart on the fpot, and with claws, wings, and beak, 

 tear away the fand,- and devour the whole contents of the depofitory. 

 No birds of this genus are found in northern regions o? Europe' 

 or Afia, at left in thofe latitudes which might give them a pretence 

 of appearing here. I cannot find them in our quarter of the globe 

 higher than the Grijon Alps *, or Silefia f ; or at fartheft Kalijh^ in 

 Great Foland\.. Certainly the Count De Buffon was mifinformed as to 

 the habitation of the fpecies, which he afcribes to Norway ||. In the 

 Ruffian dominions, the Bearded Vulture of Mr. Edwards, iii. tab. io6. 

 breeds on the high rocks of the great Altaic chain, and beyond lake 

 Baikal ^ i y^Kich. miq give it in Europe a latitude of 52. 20. in 

 Jfia of 55. 



* WiLOrn.()j.. f^ SchwenckfeJdtav. Silejta, '^ji^o % Rzaatynjki, HiJ?^ 



Nan Polon. 298. II HiJlD'Oif. i. 164. PI. Enl. 449. 



§ Dr. Pallas's Catalogue of the Birds of tie Ru£ian mfirf, which he favored as©- 

 withinMS. my fureft eliie to the -i^riS/V birds. 



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