VULTURE. 



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Vautour a tete blanche, Brif. orn. i. p. 466. N° 9. 



Le petit Vautour, Buf. oif. i. p. 164.. 



Vautor de Norwege, PL enl. 449. 



Vultur albus, Rati. Syn. p. 10. 



White Vulture, Will, orn, p. 6y, N° 6. 



Cinereous Vulture, Ditto, p. 66, N° 1. 



£)RISSON defcribes this bird as having a blueifh bill, the tip 

 black : the iris of a dull red : and that it is the iize of a 

 large Cock : the body fuliginous, fpotted with chefnut : head 

 and neck white, with brown lines : quills half white half dufky : 

 bafe of the tail white, the end brown with a whitifh tip : legs 

 covered with dull yellow feathers. 



Bttffon thinks this Vulture to be the fame with a Vulture which 

 he received from Norway, above quoted. This variety had the 

 head and neck bare of feathers, and of a reddifh colour; the 

 body almoft entirely white, except the quills, which were black. 

 In the Planches Enluminees, the bill is coloured yellow, with a 

 black tip ; the legs white ; claws black. 



7- 

 Var. A. 



ASH-COLOURED 



V. 



Description, 



Vautour d'Egypte, Brif. orn. i. p. 457. N° 3. 



Sacre d'Egypte, Buf. i. p. 167. 



Sacre Egyptien, Belon Hifr. d'Oif. p. no. t. in. III. 



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and is about the fize of a kite : has a bill between that of a 

 Raven and a bird of prey, with the legs and gait of a raven. It 

 is common about the pyramids of Egypt, where it is found in 



large. 



7- 

 Var. B. 



EGYPTIAN. 



V. 



*"pHIS is faid to be of a rufous afh-colour, fpotted with brown ; D 



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