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C L A S S II. BIRDS. 



D I V. I. LAND BIRDS. 

 ORDER L Rapacious, 



I. V U L T U R. E, Gen. Birds L 



Urubuj Aura Tzopilotl, Mexic. Margrave, 207, 208.—^//, Orn, 68. — Rail Sjn. 86. Carrioh. 



jii/. 180. 

 Carrion Crow, S/oatie Jam. ii. 294. — Bronva Jam, 471; 

 Corvus Sylvaticas, Barrere, 129. 

 Callinazo, Vlka woy. i. 60. 201. 

 Turkey Buzzard, Joffelyn. — Law/on, 138. — Catejbj, i. 6. — Bancroft, t^z.—Die 



Pratx, ii. 77. 

 Vultur Aura, Lin. Syft. 122. — Be Buffon, i. 175.— P/. £»/. N° 187. 

 Le Vautour du Brafil, Brijfon, i. 468. — Latham, i. 9. N° 5. — Lev. Mus. 



WEIGHT four pounds and an half. Head fmall, covered with DEscRrPTiotr. 

 a naked wrinkled red fkin, befet with black briftles. This 

 gives it fome refemblance to a Turkey; from which It derives one of 

 the names. The noftrils are very large, and pervious : the whole 

 plumage is dufky, dafhed with purple and green : legs of a dirty flefh- 

 color : claws black. 



Thefe birds are common from Nova Scotia to 'Terra del Fuego; but Place. 



fwarm in the hotter parts of America ; and are found in the iflands, 

 •where they are faid to be far inferior in fize to thofe of North Ame- 

 rica. 



lA the warm climates they keep in vaft flocks. Perch at night on Manners. 

 rocks or trees i fitting with difhevelled wings to purify their bodies, 



2 which 



