VULTURE. 



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Le Vautour fauve, Brif. orn. i. p. 462. N° 7. ji, 



Le Griffon, Buf. oif. i. p. 151. FULVOUS. 



Vultur fulvus, boetico congener Bel. — Rait. Sytt, p. 10. N° 7. 

 Fulvous Vulture, Will. orn. p. 67. N° 7. 

 Vulture, Albin. iii. p. 1 . t. 1 . 



*"pHIS bird exceeds the Eagle in fize, being, according to Description. 



Brijfon, three feet fix inches in length, and eight feet in 

 breadth. The bill in colour is blue grey, with the tip black : 

 the head, neck, and ruff", white : parts above rufous-grey, with 

 fome mixture of white in the wing-coverts : quills and tail 

 black : middle of the breaft bare of feathers, and covered with a 

 downy matter, or rather hair, which is of the colour of the 

 back : the under parts are white, mixed with rufous-grey : legs 

 afh-coloured, covered with white down: claws black. 



M. de Buffon doubts whether this is not a variety of the Golden 

 Vulture ; and Ray, from the name he applies to it, feems of the 

 fame opinion. 



Le Vautour hupe, Brif. orn. i. p. 460. N° 6. 

 Le Vautour a Aigrettes, Buf. oif. i. p. 159. 

 Vultur leporarius Gefneri, Rail Syn. p. 10. N° 4. 

 Hare Vulture, Will. orn. p. 67. N° 4. 



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HARE 



V. 



*TPHIS is rather lefs than the Golden Vulture, or next ipecies, Description. 





and is all over of a fhining reddifh black; the breaft much 

 inclining to a fulvous colour. The bill is black: the legs yellow: 

 claws dulky, or black. 



D While 



