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Manners, large troops. It lives on carrion, and is, with the Ibis, in great 

 efteem for deftroying fnakes and reptiles, which are common in 

 Egypt; which circumftance has caufed it frequently to be en- 

 graven on obelifks. About Grand Cairo it is called Ach~ 

 bobba *. 



M. Buffon fays, this bird is not fufficiently known, and is 

 likely to prove the fame with N° 5. But Linnxus having fet it 

 down, as well as the former, as varieties of his Percnopterus, has 

 determined us to follow his example till better informed. 



g_ Xe Vautour, Brif. cm. i. p. 453. N° I. 

 CINEREOUS Le Vautour, ou grand Vautour, Buf. oif. i. p. 158, t. 5. 

 "• ____ , i pi t enlum. 425. « 



Vultur cinereus, Rati Syn. p. 9, N° I. 



Cinereous, or Alh-coloured Vulture, Will, orn, p. 66, N" 1. 



Description. pRISSON defcribes this bird in the following manner: — The 

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fize is that of an Eagle, or rather bigger: length three feet 



fix inches, breadth feven feet nine inches. The head and upper 



part of the neck are covered with brown down: beneath the 



throat hangs a kind of beard, compofed of very narrow feathers 



like hairs: the reft of the body is covered with brown feathers: 



the quills and tail are of the fame colour, but fomewhat inclining 



to afh : legs covered with feathers quite to the toes, which are 



yellow; the claws black. This fpecies is an inhabitant of Europe : 



frequents high mountains, and lives principally on dead carcafes* 



* See Sbaiv's Travels, vol. ii. pp. 9, 92. 



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