VULTURE, 



belly, and, thrufting in their heads, pick the fielhfrom the bonesj 

 ftill leaving the Ikin to cover them. 



Alpine V. Gen. Syn. vol. i. p. 12. N*/. 7. 



Vultur percnopterus, Limai, Faun. Arag. p. 67. ALPINE \ . 



"DUILDS in high rocks, about Arragon in Spain", is called 

 there Boleta : is fometimes driven by tempeft from Ferfia to 

 JJlrachan, in the Ruffian dominions; as fome have been Ihot 

 thereabouts. 



Cinereous V^ Gen. Sytt. i. p. 14. N'S. 8. 



Vultur totus fufcus. Faun. Arag. p. 67. CINEREOUS V.^ 



fpOUND in Arragon : faid to vary, fometimes of a blackifli co- 

 lour : called in Spaing Vuitre, 



Bengal V. Gen. Syn. i. p. 19. N« 16. pi. I. 16. 



Vultur percnopterus (fern.) Hajfelq. Fay. p. 194. (Eng.ed.)? BENGAL V. 



TT has been hinted to me, that this bird is no other than the 

 female of the above-quoted, from Uajelquifi * , which appears 

 not unlikely. This author obferves, that it has an horrid appear- 

 ance : the face naked and wrinkled : the eyes large and black : 

 the beak black and hooked : the talons large: the whole body 

 polluted with filth. He adds, that they arc bold birds; and that 

 all the places round Cairo are filled with the dead bodies o{ AJfes 

 and Camels, and thoufands of thefe birds fly about, and devour 



* Not the F. percnopterus of Linnarus. — My ajh -coloured V. p. 13, is moft pro-, 

 bably the male to that of HaJJelquiJi, 



B 2 the 



