VULTURE. ai 



crooked, like that of an Eagle : cere white : round the eyes 

 bare of feathers, and of a deep yellow or orange-colour : the 

 irides pale grey : the upper eye-lid befet with ftrong briftles, 

 like eye-lafhes : the head, neck, breaft, and upper parts of the 

 body, are of a blueifh afh-colour : baflard wing, prime quills, 

 vent, and thighs, black ; in the laft, the feathers have white tips : 

 tail rounded, brownifh afh ; the end,*for above an inch, black; 

 the tip white : the two middle feathers the fame in colour as 

 the others, but more than , as long again as any of them : the 

 legs are very long, ftouter than thofe of a Heron, and of a 

 brown colour : claws lhortifh, but crooked, not very fharp, and 

 of a black colour: from the hind head fprings a number of 

 long feathers, which bang loofe behind, like a pendent creft : 

 thefe feathers arife by pairs, and are longer as they are lower 

 down on the neck : this creft the bird can ere£t or deprefs at 

 pleafure : it is of a dark colour, almoft black : the webs are 

 equal on both fides, and rather curled; and the feathers, when 

 erected, fomewhat incline towards the neck.. 



This frngular fpecies inhabits the internal parts of Africa, and 

 is frequently feen at the Cape of Good Hope* It is aifo met with 

 in the Philippine I/lands *. 



The defcription I have given above, was taken from three 

 which were alike, which I faw in England alive, fome years fince ;: 

 two of which are now in the Leverian Mufeum. From confine- 

 ment, they had loll their two long tail-feathers ; but this want 

 was kindly fupplied by fome accurate drawings, which Mr, 

 Banks favoured me with, taken from the life, at the Cape. Thefe 



* Son, Voy, p. 8S. 



were 



