20 VULTURE. 



down of a deep brown colour ; but the fore part of it, from the 

 chin to the breaft,. is quite bare ; of a dirty light brown, and 

 fomewhat wrinkled : lower part of the neck, all round, is thinly 

 fet with narrow feathers, like a ru-ff: the body above, is of a 

 deep black brown : the wing coverts have pale ' lhafts ; the 

 quills very dark, almoft black ; beneath, the colour is paler 

 than on the upper parts: the fhaft of each feather white, 

 or very pale buff-colour : thighs the fame : the crop hangs 

 over the breaft, as in many of the Vulture genus : the legs are 

 ftrong, much waned, and of a deep brown colour : claws 

 black. 

 Place. The fpecimen from which the above defcription was taken, is- 



now alive in the Tower. The keeper informed me, that it came: 

 from Bengal. 



'7* MefTager du Cap de bonne Efperance, PI. enl. 7?I» 



SECRETARY c - f • „> /, ' ' 



„ Sagittarius, rojmaer monog. tab. 8. 



Secretaire, Son. Voy. p. 87. t. 50. 



Plate II, Falco ferpentarius, J. F. Miller, t. 28. 



Secretary, or Sagittarius, Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixi. p. 175^ 



Lev. Muf. 



^T" , HIS is a moft fingular fpecies, being particularly remark- 

 able from the great length of it's legs ; which, at firft fight, 

 would induce one to think it belonged to waders :: but the 

 characters of the Vulture are fo ftrongly marked throughout, as 

 to leave no doubt to which clafs it belongs. 

 Description. The bird, when ftanding erect, is full three feet from the top 



of the head to the ground. The bill is black,, fharp, and 



crooked, 



