Var. A, 
8. 
ARABIAN 
V. 
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Le Roi des Vautours varié, Levaill. Oif 1. pl. 13. 
HIS feems a variety from age, having many black feathers 
mixed among the white ones on the neck and upper parts: 
hence Mr. Levaillant fuppofes, that thefe birds are black or dufky 
whilft young, and change to the pure white or cream-colour, as they 
approach the adult ftate; and indeed Dampier mentions, that fome 
are all over white, but the feathers look as if they were fullied, with 
bald heads and necks like the reft, and adds, we never fee above one 
or two of thefe together; and feldom a great number of black ones 
without a white one among them*. 
Vultur Monachus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 5. N° 9 
Le Chincou, Lewaill. Oi/: p. 53. N° 12. Ea lon lip. 12. Vi. 
Der Binfiedlergeyer, Allg. Ueb. d. Vog. i. 5.655. 25. 
Vautour Moine, Daudin. Orn. il. p. 15. ix 
Arabian Vulture, Gez. Syx.i. p. 8. 
HIS bird is nearly of the fize of the Sociable Vulture. "The bill 
is ftout; the bafe half pale, the reft dufky black : the whole face 
beyond the eyes, chin, and hind head, covered with a black down : on 
the crown behind, is an elevated tuft of a grey brown colour, in 
fhape like a fwan-down puff; below this, the neck is naked and 
white, giving the appearance of a white rine; the reft of the neck 
‘is cloathed with feathers, the upper ones of which are long and 
narrow, forming a kind of ruff; but the whole of the neck is bare on 
the fore part, as alfo the crop, which at times is large and round: 
irides whitifh: the plumage of the body for the moft part is plain 
brown; but the quills and tail are nearly black: legs whitifh; claws 
black: fuppofed to meafure from the tip of one wing to the other, 
= J fufpect that the Vultur Sacra, or White-tailed Vulture of Bartram, i is the above 
fpecies, and his Black Vulture the Carrion Vulture. 
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