472 BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. Vulture. 



Buff. oif. i. 169. t. 6. PI. enl. 428. — Regina aurarum. Will. orn. 302. — Queen of the aurae. Will. 

 ed. ang. 390 King of the Vultures. Edw. av. ii. t. 2. Lath. fyn. i. 7. 



Inhabits the hotter parts of America, and the Weft India Ifles. — This fpecies is about the fize of a 

 hen Turkey: The head and upper part of the neck are naked, and feem raw or excoriated; the fpace 

 round the eyes is naked, and of a faffron yellow colour ; a fillet of blackifh woolly down furrounds 

 the head, from the hind head forwards ; the quill-feathers are black, verging to afh colour ; the feet 

 and point of the bill are red ; the cere is orange coloured. This animal flies very high ; it preys on 

 ferpents, lizards, rats, and fuch animals ; and likewife devours putrid carcaffes, from which it ac- 

 quires a very difagreeable fetor. 



8 4. Arabian Vulture. — 4. Virftur Monachus. 4. 



Of a black colour, with a protuberant hind head. 



V. Monachus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 5. n. 9. — V. arabicus. Briff. orn. vi. ap. 29. Id. 8vo. 138. n. 14. — 

 Crefted black Vulture. Edw. av. t. 290. — Arabian Vulture. Lath. fyn. i. 8. 



Inhabits Arabia. — This fpecies of Vulture is larger than the Black Eagle ; the head and neck are 

 covered with afh coloured woolly down ; the fpace round the eyes is white ; the bill, having a black 

 point, with the cere, and the feet, are bluifh ; the claws are black ; the head is furmounted with a 

 confiderable protuberance behind; the fhoulders are furnilhed with an elevated ridge of loofe afh co- 

 loured feathers, into which the head is retracted when the animal fleeps.. 



9 5. Carrion Vulture. — 5. Vidtur Aura. 5. 



Of a dufky black, or brown grey-colour, dallied with green and purple ; having black 

 quill-feathers, and a white bill. 



V. Aura. Lath. ind. orn. i. 4. n. 8. — V. brafilienfis. Raj. av. i. 468. Ger. orn. i. 45. t. 13. — 

 Vautour de Brefil. Buff", oif. i. 175. PI. enl. 187. — Gallinazo. Ulloa, voy. ed. angl. 56. 196. — 

 Carrion Vulture. Sloan, jam. ii. 294. t. 254. Brown, jam. 471. Damp. voy. ii. 67. Penn. arcL 

 zool. ii. 191. n. 86. Lath. fyn. i; 9. Id. flip. 2, — Turkey Buzzard. Catefb. car. i. t. 6. Clayton, 

 in pliil. tranf. xvii. 991. — Urubu, Tzopilotl, Aura. Will. orn. 36. n. 2. Id. angl. 68. t. 3. Her- 

 nand. mex. 331. — Strunt-Vogel ? Kolb. cap. ii. 136. — Corvus fylvaticus. Barrere, fr. equ. 129. — 

 Carrion Crow. Sloan, jam. ii. 294.. 



Inhabits America, from Nova Scotia, to Terra del Fuego ; and is found in New- years iflands. — - 

 This fpecies is about the fame fize with the laft, weighing about four pounds and a half, though it 

 varies in fize : The body is black, with an iridefcence of purplifh and green ; the hides are mixed 

 faffron yellow, and bkiifh ; the head is fmall, and is covered with a naked wrinkly reddifh fkin, be- 

 fct with black briftles ; the noftrils are very large and pervious ; the legs and feet are dirty fleih co- 

 lour, with black claws. The Carrion Vulture is in a manner privileged in America, in confequence; 

 of its ufefulncfs for deftroying ferpents, carrion, and the eggs of Alligators, and is often feen devour- 

 ing the dead carcaffes of animals along with dogs, preferving the utmoft harmony with each other ; 

 it has a raoft offenfively fetid odour, and, when feized, it vomits up a quantity of mod intolerably 

 flunking fluff. It is by no means fhy, from being felclom difturbed, and may be eafily tamed ; it 

 fieeps in flocks at night, in the higheft trees, or the fummits of rocks, keeping the wings difhevelled, 



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