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This is a native of New Holland; but although the fize of it is 
uncertain, we may fuppofe it not to be one of the {malleft, and cer- 
tainly is a fierce {pecies, as it is faid to kill the Pottegorang, and even 
to attack the natives themfelves; who know it by the name of 
Boora-morang. 
L’Oricou, Levaill. Oi/. i. p. 36. pl. 9.—Daudin. Orn. i. p. 10. iii. 
HIS is a very large fpecies of vulture, and meafures ten feet 
from wing to wing extended: the bill is moderately hooked, 
and of a pale brown; cere horn colour: irides chefnut brown: head 
and neck naked, of a flefh colour, befet with a few ftrageling 
brownifh hairs; throat blackifh: the general colour of the plumage 
is dark brown on the upper parts, the feathers with paler edges ; at 
the back of the neck a ruff of pale brown; fome long loofe feathers 
of the fame colour mixed with white, hang over the breaft, and 
continue to the vent; into thefe the bird frequently draws down his 
head in a ftate of indolence or reft: the thighs are covered below 
the knees with foft whitish down, as are all the under parts of the 
body: the tail is fomewhat cuneiform: legs covered with brown 
fcales; claws very moderately hooked; and black. 
It frequents the mountainous parts of the interior of the Cape of 
Good Hope; never feen near the Cape itfelf, but particularly in the 
Namaqua Land, as well as another fpecies, and chiefly among the 
European plantations. 
Builds among the rocks; lays two, feldom three, white eggs; pair 
in O€tober, and hatch in January ; never builds in a tree, nor indeed 
does any other true Vulture. The pairs feem to be in amity one with 
another, as three or four nefts have been found by the fide of each 
other, in an hollow of a rock: the eges are not ill favoured when 
eaten. The Natives moftly call this bird Ghaip, The Dutch 
C2 colonifts 
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