VULTURE. 



repeated the operation till that end was anfwered j after which it 

 ate it up quietly. 



Dr. J. R. Forfter mentioned a further circumftancej which he 

 fays was fuppofed to be peculiar to this bird ; that fhould it 

 by any accident break the leg, the bone would never unite 

 again. — The fact I can by no means call in queftion ; but it 

 being peculiar to this fpecies, fhould be well confidered; at 

 leaft till we know whether an union of the bone will take place 

 again in the Flamingo, long-legged Plover, Avocetta, and fuch kind 

 of birds, which are liable to the fame accident. 



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Genus II. 



