BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. Vulture. 473 



as if to fweeten them from the putrid odour of their daily banquet. When preffed with hunger it 

 will fometimes attack living animals, efpecially fuch beafts as have any fore upon them. 



10 /3. Black Carrion Vulture. — 5. /3. V. Azira niger. 



Of a black colour, with brown wings, and an afh coloured bill. Molin. hift. nat. Cliil. 235. 

 Id. ed. gal. 245. 

 Vultur Jota. Lath. ind. orn. i. 4. n. 3. /2. Syft. nat. ed. Gm. i. 247. n. 5. ,3. 



Inhabits Chili. — This variety is equally offenfive in its odour with the former ; it is extremely la- 

 zy, unlefs when teazed, and then emits a cry like that of a Moufe, but ftronger ; it builds among 

 rocks or on the ground, conftrudting a neft of leaves and feathers, in which the female lays, for one 

 brood, two whitifh eggs looking as if fullied with fmoke. When young it is entirely white, growing 

 gradually darker with age, till almoft entirely black, except the bill ; the quill feathers, feet, and hi- 

 des, becoming only brown. 



11 6. Cinereous Vulture. — 6. Vultur cinereus, 6. 



Of a blackifh brown colour, with fomewhat afh coloured quill and tail feathers, the 

 legs being covered with brown feathers. 



V. cinereus. Lath, ind. orn, i. i. n. 2. Briff. av. i. 453. n. 1. Will. orn. 35. n. 1. Raj. fyn. 9. 

 n. 1. Klein, av. 44. n. 4. Id. ov. av. 18. t. 5. f. 5, — Vautour, Grand Vautour. Buff. oif. i. 158. 

 t. 5. PI. enl. 425. — Cinereous, or Afh coloured Vulture. Lath. fyn. i. 14. 



12 /3. Blackifh Cinereous Vulture. — V. cinereus nigricans. 



Of a blackifh colour. Lath. ind. orn. i. 1. n. 2. p. 



Inhabits Europe. — This fpecies meafures three feet fix inches in length, and feven feet nine inches 

 in the extent of the wings : The head, throat, and upper part of the neck, are covered with brown 

 wool or down ; under the throat is a tuft of longifh feathers, refembling hairs, forming a kind of 

 beard; the toes are yellow, with black claws. It moftly frequents, and builds its neft, in high moun- 

 tains. The blackifh variety of this fpecies is fometimes found, but is more rare than the other. 



j 3 7. Maltefe Vulture. — 7. Vultur fufcus. 8. 



Of a brown colour, with blackifh wing quills, the primaries being fpotted with brown, 

 and having white tips ; the tail quills are greyifh brown ; the feet are naked. 



V. fufcus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 5. n. 10. Briff. orn. i. 455. Id. 8vo. 130. n. 2. — Avoltajo Griffone, 

 Cetti, uc. di fard. 3. g. 3. — Vautour de Make. Buff. oif. i. 161. PL enl. 427. — Maltefe Vulture. 

 Lath. fyn. i. 15. 



Inhabits Europe, efpecially the ifland of Malta.- — This fpecies is between the fize of the Common 

 and Turkey Pheafants : The head is covered with brown wool ; the feathers on the fcrag are nar- 

 row ;. the bill is black ; the feet are yellowifh, with dark coloured claws. This fpecies has a good 

 deal of refemblance to the Aquiline Vulture, or V. percnopterus, N°. 16. infomuch that Dr Gmelin, 



queftions whether it may not be a variety of that fpecies. 



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