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white : greater wing coverts, and primaries, black ; the laft tip* 

 ped with white : lower part of the tail black ; the end v/hite i 

 legs dirty white, and fcaly. 



Mr. Pennant defcribed this from the fine collection of birds at 

 Bryn y pys, the feat of Richard Parry Price, Efq. There were 

 two of them which came from Angola. They were, fays he," very 

 " reftlefs and querulous, and more active than is ufual with this 

 " fluggifh race." 



Thefe are now finely preferved in the Leverian Museum, 



Tawny Vulture, Brown's Ilhjt. p. z. t. 1. 



npHE bill is dufky, flhort, and thick : cere large, and befet with 

 briftles : fpace between the bill and eyes naked ; reft of the 

 head covered with feathers: the chin bearded with a tuft of long 

 {lender feathers : head, neck, back, breaft, belly, and thighs, of 

 a pale tawny- colour : coverts of the wings mixed with brown: 

 tail dirty white, barred with brown : legs flender, blueilh : 

 claws long, (lightly bent. Length of the bird two feet four 

 inches. Inhabits Falkland IJlands. — Defcribed from a fpecimen 

 in the Royal Society's Mufeum. 



T ENGTH two feet fix inches. The bill is ftout and thick, 

 being moftly crooked at the end, like other Vultures ; the 

 bafe is lead-colour, the end black : the eyes are of a very dark 

 brown ; the upper eye-lid befet with hairs like eye-lafhes : the 

 head and neck are bare of feathers, being covered only with a 



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