BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. V ; 



lour. The bill is black, its bafe being covered with a yellow cere ; a liquid matter is conftanfly ouz.- 

 ing from the noftrils ; the legs and feet are naked. 



17 /3. Egyptian Aquiline Vulture. — 1 1. /3. V. Percnopterus aegyptius. 



Of a reddifh-afh colour, fpotted with brown. Lath. ind. om. i. 6. n. 3. £. 



V. aegyptius. Briff. orn. i. 457. 3. Id. 8vo. 131. 3. — V. facer aegyptius. Aldr. av. i. 3-8. t. 

 p. 379. — Sacre egyptien. Bel. oif. 1 10. t. p. (11. Buff. oif. i. 167. — Egyptian Vulture. Lath. fyn. i. 

 13. — Vautour Percnoptere. Bom. dift. hift. nat. in voc. 



Inhabits with the former. — According to M. Bomare, this variety is particularly diftinguifhed from 

 other Vultures by having a heart-fhaped brown blotch, bordered with a narrow white line, on the 

 breaft or craw, juft below a ruff, of long ftiff feathers, which furrounds the lower part of the neck ; 

 the head and neck are naked and bluifh, fhining through a fliort white down ; the cere and bill are 

 black, the point of the latter being white. The male is three feet three inches long, the female three 

 feet eight ; the male eight feet in extent, the female nine. — Thefe two varieties are of great ufe in 

 the Levant, infomuch that at Cairo in Egypt they are encouraged by having food laid down for 

 them, becaufe, by devouring every kind of putrid animal fubftance, they prevent the difguftful and 

 noxious effluvia, which would otherwife be almoft intolerable in that hot country ; and formerly it 

 was made a capital crime, by the laws of the Egyptians, to kill one. In Paleftine they are likewife of 

 great ufe by deftroying the vaft multitudes of mice which fwarm in the fields, and which, without 

 their affiftance, would devour the whole fruits of the ground. 



58 11. Crefted Vulture. — 12. Vultur criftatus. 12. 



Has a prominent creft on the head 5 the body is blackifh red, the breaft being redder $ 

 the legs and feet are naked. 



• V. criftatus. Briff. orn. 132. n. 6. Lath. ind. orn. i. 6. n. 13. — V. leporarius. Raj. fyn. 10. n. 4^ 

 Will. orn. 35. n. 4. Klein, av. 44. n. 2. Id. ov. av. 18. t. 5. f. 2. Ger. orn. i. 42. t. 9. — Vautour 

 a aigrettes. Buff. oif. i. 159. — Hare Vulture. Will. ed. angl. 67. n. 4. Lath. fyn. i. 17. 



Inhabits Europe. — In fize of body it equals the Ofprey, and the wings are fix feet in extent ; the 

 creft on the head is confpicuoufly erected like horns, when the animal is perched, or on the ground, 

 but, when flying, it is not vifible ; the feet are yellow ; the bill and claws are blackifh ; the tail is 

 long and ftraight. Dr Gmelin expreffes a doubt whether this animal fhould be confidered as a Vul- 

 ture, or as an Eagle. It is found in the thickeft and moft folitary forefts, building its neft in the 

 higheft trees, in which the female lays eggs of the colour of clayey water; it flies and runs with oreat 

 fwiftnefs, and in both ways purfues hares, rabbits, the whelps of wolves, and young fawns, and even 

 catches fifh. 



19 12. Barbary Vulture.— -13. Vultur barbar us. 13. 



Of a brown dufky colour, the under parts of a brownifh white ; the legs and feet are 

 woolly, with leaden coloured toes, and brown claws. 



V. barbarus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 3. n. 5. — V. barbatus. Briff. orn. 8vo. i. 137. n. 13. — Bearded 

 Vulture. Edw. av. t. 106. Lath. fyn. i. 11. n. 6» 



Inhabits 



