12 
Iz. 
KCLBEN’s 
V. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Place. 
Me 0 py. 
colonifts call it black Carrion Bird; to diftinguifh it ‘from the 
next fpecies, which is of a pale colour, and which they call Stront- 
jager, by which name, as allo Stront-vogel, or Aas-vogel, the colonifts 
call all kinds of Vultures; faid only to be found about the confines 
of European plantations. 
Le Chaffe-fiente, Levaill. Oj/: i. p. 44. pl. 10. Dandin Ori, ip. 15. X. 
HIS is not quite fo big as the laft, but is greatly more common: 
the bill is pale lead colour; irides deep brown: the head and 
neck bare of feathers, or covered with a few fcattered hairs, and of 
a pale dirty yellow: round the lower part of the neck is a pale 
coloured ruff of loofe feathers, common to many of the genus: the 
plumage for the moft part is a pale tawny yellowifh or [fabella 
colour: the quills and tail black ; and the quills reach almoft to the 
end of the tail: the male is fmaller than the female. If we compare 
this with the A/pine Vulture, the colour is greatly different, and the 
wings are fhorter in proportion in this laft bird, nor has it the heart- 
fhaped fpot on the breaft, feen in the pine Vulture; befides, a bare 
infpection of the two figures will detect the difference. 
This fpecies is found in every part of Africa through which Mr. 
Levaillant traverfed, on the contrary, the Sociable Vulture is only met 
with in the confines of the European plantations. Both of them, 
however, pafs under the name of Stront jager. This fpeci-s frequents 
the rocks or the high mountains, which cover the point of <frica, 
from the Cape Town to Falfe Bay, from thence it fpreads itlelf all 
around wherever food is to be found, feafting on every kind of offal, 
and approaching near to habitations, and even the {treets of the Cape, 
in queft of it, as well as crabs and other fhell-fifh; and not unfre- 
quently on land turtles, which it fwallows whole, alfo locufts, &c. 
Le 
