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VULTURIDyE. 



Chocolate-brown Percnopterus with black quills. 

 Cathartes monachus. Tcmm. PI. Col. 222. 



Inhabits the western coast of Africa : length two 

 feet three inches : the prevailing colour of the plu- 

 mage is dull brown or chocolate : the wings and tail 

 are also of this colour : the quills are black : the top 

 of the head, the region of the eyes and ears, and the 

 fore part of the neck, are naked and reddish ; the 

 occiput, hind part of the neck, and the crop, are 

 clothed with a firm and short ashy down : the tarsi 

 are feathered a little below the knee ; the rest of the 

 legs and feet are yellow. 



GENUS V.-GYPAETOS, Storr. 



Rostrum rectum, basi plu 

 mis setaceis antrorsum di- 

 rectis tectum, supra rotun- 

 datum ; mandibula infe- 

 rior basi fasciculo plumis 

 rigidis, elongatisque or- 

 nata. 



Cera plumis tecta. 

 Tarsi brevi, plumosi. 



Beak straight, its base co- 

 vered with setaceous fea- 

 thers tending forward, 

 rounded above ; the wider 

 mandible furnished at the 

 base with a fasciculus of 

 stiff and elongated fea- 

 thers. 



Cere clothed with feathers. 



Tarsi short, feathered. 



Falco, Gmel., Lath., &c, — Phene, Savigny, Yieillot. 



The only known species of this genus is the largest 

 bird of prey which inhabits the old continent : it is 

 extremely fierce, and not only feeds upon carrion, 

 but is said to attack living animals. 



Sp. 1. Gy. alpinus. 

 Vultur barbatus. Linn. — Shave, v. vii.p. \2.j)l. 5, 6. 



