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the eyes of lambs, &c.: it is more tame than other birds of prey, and 
in courle more eafily defroyed *. 
— Vultur Perenopterus, Jd. Orz. i. p, 2. 
Percnoptere, Lewaill, Vey (8v0.) i, p- 48.—Daudin, Orn ii. ip 13. Vii. 
Alpine Valture, Gex. Syn. i. p, 12,—Id, Sup. P» 3. 
© AID to be two feet in length; and fome much larger: and that 
it is common in the Pyrenzan mountains ; alfo in Eg vpt according 
to Senninit. Mr. Levaillant obferves, that they refort to Pabie Bay, at 
the Cape of Good Hope; and not unfrequently a furious fouth-eaft 
wind cbliges them to quit the mounteins, and fometimes beats them 
down ioto the ftreets at the Cape, where they are knocked on the 
head with flicks. M. de la Peironfe+ obferves, that the male and fe- 
male are different in cclour; the firft wholly white, the other brown, 
but only fo in the adult ftate; for when young and incomplete in 
plursage, they are often of a pale colour; above {potted yellow and 
brown, with the under parts yellow, and differing fo materially from 
the old ones in external appearance, as to deceive the lefs experienced 
naturalift. : 
V. Leucocephalus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 2. N° 4. 
V. Angolenfis, 7d. i. p. 7. 17 ?—Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 27. tli.—-Lev, Muf. N° iv. 
Rachamah, Bruce’s Trav. v.5.t. in p. 163. 
L’ourigourap, Lewaill. Oif, p. 62. pl. 14.—-Daudin, Orn. ii. p. 21. Xviil. 
Ath-coloured Vulture, Gew. Syz.i. p. 13. 
Angola Vulture, Gen. Syn. icp. 18.14. 
HIS has been before deferibed under’ feveral of the refpective 
heads above quoted ; but I think it not amifs to add here, Mr. 
Levaillant’s account of it, who fays, that it is about the fize of a fe- 
male Turkey ; the whole front of the head much beyond the eyes, and 
* Bechfl. Mufi. p. 55~ 
+ Neu. Abb. der Schw. Ac. der Wifs, 8. 99. ; 
taking 
