VULTURE. 



k carunculated dentated fkin or flap, which hangs over one or the 

 other fide of the bill indifferently, as the bird turns it's head. 

 The fpace round the eyes is of a faffron-colour ; the iris of the 

 eye whitiffi. The crown of the head, and the neck, are bare of 

 feathers ; the whole of which it can draw into a large ruff of 

 loofe afh-coloured feathers, which are placed on the fhoulders. 

 A fillet of blackifh down encompaffes the head, arifing from the 

 hindhead. At the corner of the bill, between that and the eyes, 

 is a purple brown fpot. The upper parts of the body are of a 

 reddifh buff-colour; under parts white, with a tinge of yellow: 

 quills greenifh black : tail black : craw pendulous and orange- 

 coloured : the legs are dirty white : claws black. — This bird is 

 Place. a native of South America and the Weft Indies : it lives on carrion, 



and feeds alfo on rats, lizards, fnakes, and excrement of all kinds ; 

 and in courfe is of a difagreeable odour, from the nature of the 

 food it lives on. 



4- Vultur monachas, Lin.Syfi.l. p. 122. N°4. 



ARABIAN Le vautour d'Arabie, Brif. orn. app. p. zp. 



Crefted black Vulture, Ed<w. orn. t. 290. 



Description. A CCORDING to Edwards, the fize exceeds that of a common 

 eagle, by one third. The bill is blueifh at the bafe; at the 

 end black : the cere is blue : irides hazel. The head and neck 

 are covered with downy afh-coloured feathers. The crown of the 

 head is gibbous, and elevated into a large knob. The orbits are 

 white. On the fhoulders is placed an afh-coloured ruff of loofe 

 feathers, into which it can draw it's head during fleep. The 

 colour of the body is dufky brown, nearly black, above ; beneath, 



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