42 PLAINTIVE VULTURE. 



ality however, as Mr. Latham has observed in his 

 Supplement, its characters are rather those of a 

 Vulture than an Eagle. 



Its length is about two feet four inches, and its 

 colour white or pale cinereous, crossed with very 

 numerous blackish lines or narrow bars; but the 

 wings are brown, except some of the larger quill- 

 feathers, which are black, and some of the seconda- 

 ries, which are coloured like the back, and have 

 black tips: the tail is also of the same appearance, 

 and is tipped by a broad black bar, and on the 

 lower part of the belly is a broad black zone: the 

 bill is brown, the cere or naked part, which ex- 

 tends beyond the eyes, is orange-coloured, and 

 slightly besprinkled with a kind of setaceous down, 

 which is continued to a little distance under the 

 throat : the top of the head is black, with the 

 feathers somewhat lengthened, so as to form a 

 slight crest : the legs and feet are yellow. This 

 bird is finely figured in Mr. Miller's miscellaneous 

 plates of Natural History. It is a native of Terra 

 del Fuego, and is introduced, as an accompaniment 

 to the scenery of Christmas Sound in the thirty- 

 second plate of Captain Cook's Voyage, vol. 2. 

 p. 184. 



