VULTURE. 



Manners. While this bird is at reft, either fitting or ftanding, it eredls a 



creft, appearing as if it was horned, which does not appear while 

 it is flying. It flies very fwift, and runs faft, preying both on 

 living as well as dead animals, alfo fifh ; catching the firft not 

 only in flight, but by often fairly running them down. 



J 3- 

 GOLDEN 



V. 



Description. 



Le Vautour dore, Brif. orn. i. p. 45S. N° 5. 

 Vultur fulvus Gefneri, Rail Syn. p. 10. N°5. 

 Vultur bceticus, Rati Syn. p. 10. N° 3. 

 Golden Vulture, Will. orn. p. 67. N" 5. t. 4. 



Length four feet eight inches. 



TRIGGER than the Golden Eagle. 



The head and hind part of the neck are rufous white : the 

 body is black above, and rufous beneath : quills and tail brown :. 

 the lhafts of the feathers, on the upper parts, are white .- legs 

 covered to the toes with pale rufous feathers : the toes them- 

 felves brown : claws horn-colour. 



M. de Buffon fays, that it appears, clear to him, that this and 

 N° 1 1 are varieties of each other. 



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ANGOLA 



V. 



Description. 



Angola Vulture, Penn. Tour in Wales, p. 228. t. 10/.- 

 Lev. Muf. 



'IP H E fize of this fpecies is about half as big again as a kite. 

 The bill is whitifh, long, and but little hooked : cere blue- 

 ifli : orbits flefh-coloured and naked : irides ftraw-coloured : 

 head and neck clothed with feathers : craw pendulous : head, 

 neck, back, breaft, belly, and leffer wing coverts, of a pure 

 10 white : 



