6 Wee Alea teny Teer (se Rag Be 
Petit Vautour +, as alfo the Sacre d’Egypte of the fame author}, to 
which I may add, the probability of its proving the dugola Vulture of 
Pennant, and the Rachamab of Bruce, which is common near Cairo, 
and if it fhould not prove likewife a variety of the V. de Malrhe§, it at 
leaft correfponds with it in the fhape of the bill,in which part the whole 
of the laft-mentioned differ from other vultures. When, however, 
the decifion of the Vulture genus into real fpecies may take place, is 
not for us to determine; the variety among individuals, from different 
periods of life, as well as the different appearances of thofe in a ftate 
of confinement, to what the plumage has when at large, cannot fail 
to create no {mall difficulty; added to that, very few travellers are na- 
turalifts in a fufficient degree to difcriminate one part of nature from 
another; befides, the fubjects in queftion being moftly extra-Euro- 
pean, we cannot wonder at being fo long in the dark: let us how- 
ever attempt all we can, with the hopes of {ome future day being able 
to arrive at greater precifion; nor let any writer be afhamed of cor- 
recting his miftakes the moment he may be poffeffed of better infor- 
mation. 
Bruce obferved thefe birds near Cairo in abundance, where it is a 
great breach of the police to kill one of them. Acording to Dr. Shaw 
it is a very tame fpecies; and the Bafhaw is faid daily to diftribute two 
bullocks among them, being efteemed facred birds. 
6 Valtur Barbatus, Jud. Orn. i. p. 9. N° 5. 
BEARDED ~ Blayiaig, ———— + (58 
V. Gypzete des Alpes, Daudin. Orn. ii, p. 25. pl. x. 
Niffer Werk, Bruce Trav. App. tab. p. 155.—Rebert Fc. pl. 2? 
Bearded Vulture, Laemmergeyer, Gen. Syn. i. p. 11.—-Cox’s Travels in Sewitzer- 
land (8vo. vol. ii. p. 280.) a figure of the head. 
DescriPTIoN. TT HE bird quoted above, as defcribed by Mr. Bruce, extends from 
wing to wing eight feet four inches, weighs twenty-two pounds, 
and is in length four feet feven inches. The crown and front are 
+ Y.i, p. 164. t 167. § Pl. Enl, 427. 
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