BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. Vulture. 469 



I. RAPACIOUS BIRDS. 



The upper mandible has an angular projection, or 

 is dilated a little at each fide, near the point. 



I. VUL TU RE.— 1. VULTUR. 41. 

 T'he hW '•>* ftn»<?ht, aiv 1 hooked at the end, having the bafe 



It was found impoffible to complete the Syftematic Catalogue of Birds, without great riik of inac- 

 curacy, until the whole of the clafs is printed off; in the mean time allowance is made, in the figna- 

 tures and folios, for the infertion of the remainder of the Catalogue : This information was thought 

 neceffary to account for the apparent hiatus, and to direct the Bookbinder, for the prefent, that p. 

 432, being the laft of Sheet H hh, is to be followed by p. 469, being the firft of Sheet O o o : The 

 iheets omitted [viz. I i i, K k k, L 1 1, M m m, N n n] will be delivered along with the laft part of 

 the Clafs of Birds, and muft then be inferted in their proper place; 



(To be inferted between page 432 and page 469 of Vol. i. Part ii.) 



Afia, nor, except one fpecies, the Carrion Vulture, do they ever inhabit the north of America, The 

 fpecies and varieties of this genus are diftinguifhed from each other with great difficulty, and even 

 the genus itfelf is by no means very eafily feparated from that which immediately follows. In this 

 genus, befides the circu'mftances already noticed in the character, the legs and feet are rnoftly cover- 

 ed with large fcales ; the firft joint of the middle toe is generally connected to that of the outer toe 

 by a ftrong membrane ; the craw, or crop, often hangs over the breaft, especially when gorged with 

 food ; and the iniides of the wings are lined with down. 



i. Condour. — 1. Vultur Gryphus, 1. 



Of vaft fize, having a longitudinal warty excreffence on the crown of the head, and a 

 naked thro?t. 



V. Gryphus. Lath. bid. orn. i. 1. n. 1. — V. Gryps, Gryphus. Klein, av. 45. ri. 8. Briff. av. i. 473. 



n. 12. Borowlk. nat. ii. 62. n. 2. — Cuntur. Laet. amer. 401. Raj. fyn. 11. n. 0. — Condor. Frez. 



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