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SERPENTARIUS. SNAKE-EATER. 



Generic Character. 



Rostrum vulturinum. 

 Lingua acuminata. 

 Pedes longissimi. 



Beak vulturine. 

 Tongue pointed. 

 Legs very long. 



AFRICAN SNAKE-EATER. 



Serpentarius Africanus. S. cinereus, occipite cristato, cauda 



cuneata, rectricibits mediis elongatis. 

 Ash-coloured Snake-Eater, with the hind-head crested, the 



tail cuneated, and the middle tail-feathers lengthened. 

 Sagittarius. Vosmaer monogr. tab. 8. 

 Secretary or Sagittarius. Phil. Trans. 6l. p. 17 5. 

 The Snake-Eater. Memoirs ofG. Edwards, p. 34. 

 Secretaire. Sonnerat voy. p. 87. t. 50. 

 Vultur Serpentarius. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Secretary Vulture. Lath syn. 



Falco Serpentarius. Lin.Gmel. Miller III. Nat. Hist.pl. 28. 

 Vultur Serpentarius. Cimelia Physica. t. 28. 



A HE bird which constitutes the present genus 

 is so much allied in its principal characters to the 

 Vulture tribe, that it has been associated with 

 those birds by one of the first ornithologists of the 

 present age. It has indeed been more generally 



