VULTURE. ir 



Vultur barbatus, Lin./yji.i. p. 123. 6. 



Le Vautour barbu, Brif. orn. app. p. 26. BEARDED 



Vultur bceticus, Rati fyn. p. 10. 

 Chefnut Vulture, Will. orn. p. 66. 

 Bearded Vulture, Edw. orn. t. 1060 



'CIZE of an Eagle ; extent of wing, according to Edwards, feven Description. 



feet and half; from bill to claws two feet eight inches. The 

 bill is of a purplifh flefh-colour, deepen at the bafe, and hooked 

 at the point only : under the lower mandible is a tuft of black 

 feathers hanging down like a beard : the infide of the mouth is 

 blue : the eye-lids are red, and the irides of a bright yellow : 

 the head for the moll part is covered with white down ; the 

 forehead, the cheeks, and round the eyes, black, which narrow- 

 ing into a fillet behind each eye, meet behind at the crown, en- 

 circling the head: from the angles of the mouth it is again 

 black, pafiing a little way downwards on each fide, like whif- 

 kers : the neck is covered with narrow, long feathers, pointed at 

 the end, and of a whitifh colour : the body is blackifh brown 

 above, the edges of the feathers paleft; the under parts arc 

 white, with a tinge of brown : the legs are covered with downy 

 white feathers : the toes are lead-colour, and the claws brown. 



This fpecies inhabits Africa : the fpecimen from which Edwards Placs; 

 drew his bird came from Santa Cruz in Barbary, 



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