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by blows and every other means poffible. The bird, however in- 
aétive on fuch occafions, is at other times of very quick flight, info- 
much as not unfrequently to foar to fuch an height as to be out of 
the reach @f human vifion. It is called by the inhabitants of Chili 
by the name of Manque ; the biggeft hitherto obferved, meafured full 
fourteen feet from the tip of one wing to that of the other when ex- 
tended, 
Californian Vulture, Nat. Mic. v. 9. pl. 301. 
| ey fize, this bird nearly equals the Condur. The general colour 
of the plumage is black ; but the fecond quills have whitifh tips, 
and the wing coverts incline to brown: the wings when folded, 
reach beyond the tail: the head and neck are entirely bare of 
feathers, quite fmooth, and of a dufky reddifh colour: acrofs the front 
is a bar of dufky, and two others of the fame on the hind head: the 
bill is of a pale colour: the lower part of the neck is furrounded 
with a ruff, compofed of flender black feathers, of the ftructure 
ufually feen in many of the genus: the under part of the body is 
covered with loofe downy feathers; the tail is even at the end: the 
legs black. 
This bird was brought from California, by Mr. Mexzies, and is 
now in the Britifh Mufeum: it feems to have fome affinity to the 
Condur. 
Vultur cinereus, Izd. Orn. i. p. 1. N° 2.—Hi?. Prov. i. p. 337. 
Vautour commun, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 16. x1.—Id. p. 18. 15. 
Der Arrian Geyer, Allg. Uch. d. Vog. I. i. p. 654. 24? 
Cinereous or afh-coloured Vulture, Ge. Syz.i. p. 14. 
T has been obferved to frequent the mountainous parts of Ger- 
many, defcending into the plain in winter. ‘The huntfman expects 
to be paid well for fhooting thefe, as they attack fheep, hares, goats, 
and even deer, being very troublefome to the farmer, in picking out 
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