16 VULTURE. 



io. Le Vautour noir, Brif. orn. i. p. 457. N° 4. 



BLACK Le Vautour, PI. enl. 425 ? 



Vultur niger, Rail. Syn. p. 9, N" 2. 



Black Vulture, Will. orn. p. 66, Chap. v. N' 2. * 



Swarthy Vulture, Cbarl. ex. p. 71, N" 4. 



Description, pt HIS fpecies is wholly black, except the wings and tail, which 

 are brown : the legs are covered with feathers to the toes. 

 It exceeds every way the Golden Vulture in fize, and is found 

 frequently in Egypt. 



M. Buffon fays *, that it is a mere variety of the Cinereous 

 Vulture, N° 8; to which I can fay nothing: but muft remark, 

 once for all, that it will be frequently found impoffible fo to re r 

 concile the various fentiments of authors, as to place them all 

 upon one juft bafis. We fhall therefore be obliged, not only in 

 this, but in many other inftances throughout this work, to leave 

 things as they are found, letting every reader adhere to the opi- 

 nion he fhall beft approve of, rather than obtrude one of our 

 own, except upon very folid grounds, and for which good rea- 

 fons will be given. 



* Oif. vol. i. p. 163. 



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