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author has followed the example of some preceding 

 writers, who have unnecessarily divided the casual 

 varieties of this bird into distinct species. Mr. 

 Latham in his Index ornithologicus has followed 

 Gmelin in this separation of characters, but in the 

 second Supplement to his Synopsis of Birds he has 

 very properly united them under the name of the 

 Bearded Vulture. 



The Count de Buffon, apparently misled by 

 the general accounts of its size and manners, er- 

 roneously supposes this bird to be the same with 

 the Condor, which he therefore imagines to be 

 common both to the old and new world. The 

 Bearded Vulture is said to build in the inaccessible 

 cavities of lofty rocks, and is sometimes observed 

 to assemble in small flocks about the mountainous 

 regions of the countries it inhabits. 



MONK VULTURE. 



Vultur Monachus. V. fuscus, torque cervicali externa, crista, 



occipitali plumosa. 

 Brown Vulture, with lengthened ruff, and downy occipital crest. 

 V. Monachus. V. vertice gibboso, corpore nigro. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Percnopteros, Gypaetos, &c. Aldr. om. \.p. 218. 

 Vautour, ou Grand Vautour. Buff. ois. l. p. 158.} PL Enl. 



425.? 

 Cinereous Vulture. Lath. syn. l.p. 14. ? 

 Arabian Vulture. Lath. syn. l.p. 8. 

 Crested black Vulture. ' Edxv. pi. 2Q0. 



Several of the Vulture tribe, those more parti-, 

 eularly which have a naked or downy neck, are 



