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taking in the threat, is bare, and of a faffron colour: the bill long 
and flender, of a rather deeper colour, but blackifh towards the point: 
the reft of the neck, an the fides, and behind, 1s covered with long 
flender feathers, but before, as -far as the crop, it is fcarcely more 
than downy; and the crop itleif bare, and orange brown: the ges 
neral colour of the plumage and tail, 1s dirty safes white, rather 
pale; the gus are moftly black, but the fecondaries are outwardly 
the colour of the reft pf the plumage : tail rather rounded in inept: : 
legs yellowifh brown. 
The femele exceeds the male in fize, and differs diene in being 
lefg tinged with redilith ; and the young birds have the whole of the 
naked parts about the head covered with a greyifh down. 
This fpecies is generally feen in pairs, but does not unite in large 
flocks, like many of the vultures; indeed ten or twelve are often 
feen together about one carcafe, but they have been broueht there 
by common attraction, allured thereto by the fmell, which though 
unperceivable to human fenfation, attraéts their infinitely more deli- 
cate organs at inconceivable diftances. Said to build among the 
rocks, laying four eggs: are moft frequent among the fterile lands 
of Kerow and Camdeboo; alfo in the Country of Hottniqua, though 
more rare; the fame in refpect to the neighbourhood of the Cape: 1s 
capable-of being made tame; and there are few of the hordes in which 
one does not fee a pair; and the natives feemed pleafed with their 
company, as they ferved to free them from every ftinking thing which 
might otherwife annoy them. This natural tamenefs occafions their 
being eafy to fhoot at, though, unlefs with a large ball, they are not 
eafily killed. Their food feems general, all manner of carrion. Liz- 
rds, fhakes, frogs, and even the excrements of beafts do not efcape 
them. 
‘This feems to be the 7 de Norvege of Buffor*, and in courfe his 
* Hifi. Of—Pl, Enl. 449. 
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