VULTURE. 



Le Vautour de Gingi, Son. roy.4nJ. ii. p. 184. r-nvfAV tr 



CIZE of a Turkey. In the bill not unlike that bird, and grey : Descripition, 



noftrils pervious : iridesred; the forehead, cheeks, and throat, 

 are covered with a reddifh fkin : the feathers of the hind part of 

 the head and neck, long, narrow, and white : the wing coverts, 

 back, belly, and tail, of the fame colour : the quills black : legs 

 grey. 



This inhabits the coaft of Coromandek where the inhabitants call Place, 

 it the Wild Turkey. 



This perhaps is the Vulture mentioned in the EJfais Philofo~~- 

 phiques, faid to be almoft wholly white: the head and neck co- 

 vered with fine, fliort, briftly feathers : quills long, and towards 

 the ends of a blackilh grey. This bird is faid to fly quick and 

 light, to be very voracious and timid ; and moftly found fingly 

 on fome hillock in the marflies where it feeds, which it does on 

 carrion ; but prefers repfiles, when to be had. 



Another is alfo mentioned in the fameiook*, of the fize of a 

 Turkey : the male of a marbled brown j the female, iron-grey : 

 head and half the neck naked, wrinkled, and covered with reddifh 

 yellow excrefcences, with fcattered hairs between. This may per- 

 haps have fome relation to the other, as it is faid to be very like 

 the King Vulture, though not the fame bird. It is often met with 

 in flocks of twenty or thirty, eating the flelh of a dead beaft. 



• Ef. Piilof, p. 5&. 



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