VULTURE. 



bird can erect at will. The hind part of the neck is fulvous : 

 the upper parts of the body, for the moft part, black ; beneath, 

 white. Tail barred with brown and black, alternate : vent and 

 thighs barred white and black; edges of the tail-feathers whitifh: 

 legs covered with white feathers, and fpotted, or rather barred, 

 with black. Linnaus fays, that the legs and claws are both 

 naked, and that they are of a yellow colour; and thinks it much 

 allied to the Falcon genus, fince the head is deftitute of feathers 

 in no part. 



This bird inhabits Mexico, Braftl, and other parts of South 

 America. It is faid to be able to cleave a man's fkull afunder, 

 with one flroke of the bilL 



Pl)AC£» 



Vultur papa, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 122. No 3. 3. 



Le Roi des Vautours, Brif. orn. i. p. 470. t. 36. N° n» ~^* v 



» Buf. oif. i. p. 169. t. 6. 



■ ■ PL enlum. N° 428. 



Cozcaquauhtli, Raii Syn. p. 161. 



The Vulture, Alhin. 2. t. 4; 



King of the Vultures, Ed<u>. orn, t. 2. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. » 



*"pHIS fpecies is about the fize of an hen Turkey. The bill is Descriptxos*. 



red at the end ; the middle black : the cere is orange-co- 

 loured, which is continued on the upper part, fo as to form a 



* By this is meant, the Mufeum of Sir AJbton Lever, at Leicefter Houfe ;. 

 well known to abound in the various productions of nature and art : in which 

 the inquifitive mind cannot fail of receiving the utmoft fatisfaftion in ever)* 

 department. 



9, carunculated 



