474 BIRDS. RAPACIOUS, Vulture. 



14 8. Black ^"ulture. — 8. Vultur niger. 9. 



Of a blaek colour, having brown quill and tail feathers ; the legs are covered with 

 black feathers. 



V. niger. Brill*, orn. i. 457. n. 4. Id. 8vo. 131. Raj. fyn. 9. n. 2. Will, orn. 35. n. 2. Lath, 

 ind. orn. i. 6. n. n. — Swarthy Vulture. Charl. x. 71. n. 4. — Black Vulture. Will. ed. angl. 66. 

 Lath. fyn. i. 16. n. 10. — Avoltojo nero. Cetti, uc. {"and. 9. g. 9. 



Inhabits Egypt and Sardinia. — This fpecies is of a large fize, exceeding that of the Golden Beard- 

 ed Vulture ~ The head is covered with brown wool ; the upper part of the neck is entirely naked, 

 and white ; the fpace round the eyes, and the legs and feet down to the toes, are covered with white 

 woolly down ; the whole body is black, with brown quill and tail feathers ; the tongue is fmooth at 

 the edges; the firft two inches of the bill is ftraight, the fore part is longer and hooked ; the noftrils 

 are round, and near a quarter of an inch in diameter. Dr Gmelin queftions whether this Vulture 

 may not be merely a variety of the Aquiline fpecies, 



1 J 9. Fulvous Vulture. — 10. Vultur fulvus. n. 



Of a reddifh grey, or tawny colour, on the upper parts of the body ; the head, neck, 

 and a collar round the neck, white ; the quiil and tail feathers black. 



V. fulvus. Hablizl, ap. S. G. Gmelin, it. iv. 179. Pall. n. nord. beytr. iv. 58. BrhT. orn. i. 462. 

 n. 7. Id. 8vo. 133. Lath. ind. orn. i. 6. n. 12. Ger. orn. i. 43. t. 10. Raj. fyn. 10. n. 7. Will, 

 orn. 36. t. 4. f. 1. — Griffon. Buff. oif. i. 151. — Vulture. Alb. av. iii. t. 1. — Fulvous Vulture. Lath, 

 fyn. i. 17. Will. ed. ang. 67. n. 7. 



Inhabits the mountains of Perfia. — This fpecies is larger than the F. Aquila fulva, or Ring-tail 

 Eagle : The head and neck are covered with thick woolly down; the bill is bluifh afh colour, having 

 its bafe covered by a black cere, or naked fkin ; the lower part of the neck is furrounded with feve- 

 ral rows of long, narrow, briftly feathers, of a reddifh white colour ; on the middle of the breaft is a 

 kind of pit, or hollow, covered with white down, and furrounded with long narrow reddifh feathers; 

 the feathers on the lower parts of the body are white towards the bafe and reddilh at the tips. The 

 legs, from the middle of the thighs downwards, are thickly covered on the infide with white down, 

 and on the outfide with long reddifh feathers ; the feet are of a leaden colour, having black claws. 



Ifj 10. Aquiline Vulture. — ii< Vultur Percnopterus. 7. 



The wing quills are black, having their outer edges, except thofe of the two outer- 

 mod, of a hoary colour. 



V. percnopterus. Gmel. it. iii. 364. t. 37. Borowfk. nat. ii. 65. Lath. ind. orn. i. 2. n. 3. — 

 Percnoptere. Buff. oif. i. 149. PI. enl. 426. — V. aquilina. Alb. av. ii. 3. t. 3. — Vulturine Eagle. 

 Will. orn. 64. t. 4. — Alpine Vulture. Lath. fyn. i. 12. Id. fup. 3. 



Inhabits Egypt, r.leftine, Syria, Caramania, Perfia, and the fouth of Europe. — The male is entirely 

 white, having black quill feathers, all of which, except the two outermoif primaries of each wing, 

 have their external webs edged with hoary. The female is of a brown colour, having the quill fea- 

 thers cJg^i til e .' of the male, except the four outermoft primaries, which are of a uniform co- 

 lour. 



