VULTURE. 5 



quills marked as the tail : the legs yellow ; claws black, mode- 

 rately hooked, and blunt at the tips. 



The above defcription I was enabled to draw up from a fpeci- 

 men preferved in fpirits, now in the Britijb Mufeum ; whereby I 

 have full affurance of its belonging to the Vulture genus, and 

 feems to be no other than my Plaintive Eagle before defcribed^ 



Falco cheriway, Jacq. Vogd. p. 17. t. 4'. 19. 



CHERIWAY V. 



T ENGTH two feet and a half, or more. Bill pale blue : head Description. 



and neck very pale yellow : hind-head crefted : cere and 



round the eyes rofe-colour : general colour of the plumage on the 



upper parts ferruginous, beneath pale, vent white ; the two n^id- 



dle tail feathers barred with dufliy^ the lateral ones, and quills, 



dufky black: legs pale yellow. 



Inhabits the ifland oiAruha, on the coaft of Venetzuela, in South Place. 



America, 



Crefted V. G£«. Sj'B. i. p. 6? 20. 



Vulturcoronatus, 7«<r^. ^0^. p.15. N' II. CROWNED V. 



'X'HIS is very probably a variety of the crefted Vulture, as it is Description. 



faid to be of the fame fize. The bill is black : the head of 

 a reddifh grey, and adorned with a creft compofed of feveral fea- 

 thers, fix inches long at lead : part of the wings, the neck, and 

 breaft, are black : belly white : thighs white, fpotted with black : 

 tail long, black and white mixed : legs very ftrong and yellow. 



This was met with near St. Magdalen River, in New Grenada. Place. 



When it ftands ereft, it is two feet and a half in height, 



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