VULTURE, 



fight feet three quarters j but obferves, that a Vulture has beei> 

 killed in Switzerland, meafuring twelve feet from the tip of one 

 wing to that of the other : however, it ftill remains dubious whe- 

 ther the Laemmer-geyer be the fame with the Condur, or a mere 

 variety of the Bearded Vulture, as fome think ; for the firft is not 

 mentioned as having a comb on the head, which travellers furnilb 

 ^t Condur w'xth. In SfiH/urgen'sV oysLge*, it is faid, that " in 

 " the ifland Loubes\, they took two fowls, in beak, wings, and 

 " talons, refembling an Eagle ; and combs on their heads, like 

 " Cocks. They were two ells high, and three in breadth, from 

 *' wing to wing, when ftretched out." — It is much to be feared^ 

 that other authors, as well as myfelf, have greatly confounded the 

 fpecies of Vultures; for being, like the Falcon tribe, long-lived, 

 their plumage puts on a great variety of drefs, fufficient to de- 

 ceive thofe who have hitherto attempted to difcriminate them. 



5. Carrion Vulture, Gm. Syn. vol. 1. p. ^.- — ArSi.- Ztioh N" 86. — Damp^ 



CARRION V. Fey. ii. pt. 2d, p. 67. 



Strunt-vogel. or Dung-Bird, Kcli. Cap.W. p. 136 ? 



D 



\AMPIER obferves, that the fcent of this bird is fo nice, that 

 very foon after a beaft is killed, two or three hundred will 

 flock together from all parts in lefs than an hour's time,, though 

 before not one was to be feen thereabouts. 



Kolben remarks, that an hundred or more will attack an Ox or 

 Cow retired from labour, fick, and faint ; and falling all at oniEC 

 upon him, foon devour him : they begin by making a hole in the 



* See Harris, Coll'. Voy. vol.i. p. 3J. 



■f This is not far diftantfrom Pejta, in Ssxth America. 



belly, 



