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feathers, anJ grey beak and legs. The vautour giiigi of 

 Sonnerat, who fays it is of the fize of a turkey, and is 

 found about the coafts of Coromandel. Its flight is ftrong 

 and rapid, and its voracity infatiable : it lives on carrion and 

 reptiles ; is generally feen finjrlc' and in marfhy places. 



Plancus, Whitifh Vulture. With tranfverfe blackilh 

 lines, brown wings, and (lightly crelled black crown. This 

 is the V. plancus of Latham, the falco plancus of Lin- 

 naeus and Gmelin, the plaintive eagle and plaintive vulture 

 of Latham. It is a native of Terra del Fuego. 



Cheriway, Vulture. With rofe-coloured cere, yellow 

 legs, ferruginous body, and whitifh head with ferruginous 

 creft. This is a kind of doubtful fpecies, which may be 

 confidered either as a vulture or an eagle. Jacquin firll de- 

 fcribed it, after having obferved it in the ifland of Aruba, 

 near the coall of Venezuela in South America. 



The following fpecies are denominated by Dr. Shaw 

 doubtful : 11/2. 



Tatvny Vu'ture of Latham, faid to be a native of Falk- 

 land iflands, with very (hort bill, large cere, and chin (lightly 

 bearded. 



Hare Vulture, probably a fpecies of eagle rather than 

 vulture. 



Armed Vulture. Mentioned by Brown in his African tra- 

 vels, and faid to be very frequent in the country of Darfur, 

 flying about by thoufands, and devouring all kinds of car- 

 rion, &c. 



Bold Vulture of Latham, fo bold as to attack the natives 

 in New Holland, where it is called" Boora Morang." 



It is faid that there are no vultures in Great Britain, nor 

 any north of the Baltic ; but the various fpecies are found 

 in the fouthern parts of Europe, Afia, Africa, and Ame- 

 rica, as low as Terra del Fucgo. They are a fluggifh un- 

 generous race, preying oftener on dead animals, and even on 

 putrid carcafes, than on living creatures : their fenfe of 

 fmelling is mod exquifite : they coUeft in flocks from great 

 diftances ; and are direfted to their prey by the fagacity of 

 their noftrils : they fly flowly and heavily ; are very greedy 

 and voracious to a proverb ; and they are bold and fearlefs, 

 preying in the midll of cities, undaunted by mankind. 

 Pennant's Genera of Birds, p. 2. 



The vulture was a bird confecrated to Mars and Juno ; 

 and ufed among the Romans in the cxercife of augury. 



VuLTUR, Mons, {Mount Vulturno,) in Anciml Geogra- 

 phy, a mountain of Italy, in Apulia, forming a chain 

 which extends from the S.W. to the N.E. fouth of Ve- 

 nufia. We learn from Livy, that the inhabitants of the 

 country called the wind which proceeded from this moun- 

 tain Vullurn'.is ; which wind is faid to have blown in the 

 faces of the Romans during the battle of Cannx. But Po- 

 lybius does not mention this circumftance ; .and it appears 

 that the Romans wire to the S., and the Carthaginians to 

 the N-, fo that the faces of the former were turned towards 

 the N. or the E. Accordingly, the wind of whicli Hanni- 

 bal fpcaks, was one of the collateral winds, which the an- 

 cients c.illed Vnltiirnus, and wliich was E.S.E. 



Horace fpcaks of this mountain in one of his Odes (lib. iii. 

 od.4.) ; and Lucan alfo mentions it {lib. ix. v. 183.) 



VULTURIA, or Vultuhina, a fortified place in 

 Gallia Cifalpina, S.E. of Cremona ; which furrendered to 

 the Lombards. 



VULTURIUS, among the Romans, a throw of the tali, 

 othorwile called cams. See Talauius Ludus. 



Alfo, an epithet given to Apollo, from a whinifical cir- 

 cumftance, which was that of releafing a poor flicpherd, who 

 had been deferted with ftolen treafure by his companion, 

 and left in the cavern of a rock, from which he had no 



nieai>8 of afcending. Apollo advifcd hina to wound hi» 

 body with a flint, upon which a number of vultures, al- 

 lured by the fcent of blood, flocked round him, and plant- 

 ing their bills in his wounds and cloaths, mounted upwards 

 with him, and delivered him from the cave. The fable fur- 

 ther reports, that the other fhepherd was fentenced to death 

 by the Ephefian magiftrates, and the furvivor having re- 

 ceived by their award half the gold which was found in the 

 cave, and which his companion had purloined, built with it, 

 upon the mountain where the adventure had occurred, a 

 temple in honour of his deliverer, under the name of 

 Apollo Vulturius. 



VuLTURius Lapis, a name given by many to the ftone 

 called guandroi. 



VULTURNALIA. See Volturnalia. 



VULTURNIA, in Ancient Geography, an ifland fitua- 

 ted between Sicily and the coaft of Africa, according to 

 tlie Itin. of Anton. 



VULTURNUM, a town of Italy, at the mouth of the 

 Vulturnus. 



VULTURNUS, (Le Vulturno,) a river of Italy, in 

 Campania. It commenced towards the north, in Samnium, 

 among the Caracenians, and for a long interval feparated 

 Samnium from Campania. At Benevento, it turned. to the 

 W., and difcharged itfelf into the fea. Towards the fea, 

 on the right of the river, was the territory of Falerna, on 

 this fide of mount Mafllcus, which was celebrated for its 

 excellent wine ; but in the time of Pliny it was neglefted, 

 and began to decline in reputation : that of the vineyard of 

 Faiidinus being more elleemed. Livy informs us, that in 

 the fecond Punic war, a fort was ereAed at the mouth of 

 this river, which afterwards became a town, in which was 

 eftabhfhed a Roman colony. Varro gives this town the 

 name of a colony. 



VULTUS de Luca, the fame with veronica. 



VULVA, quafi Valvje, doors, a name which fome phy- 

 ficians give to the vagina, and others to the uterus, or 

 womb. 



Vulva is fometimes alfo ufed for the cunnus, or whole 

 pudendum muliebre. 



VUNENA, a name given by the people of Guinea to a 

 kind of catch-fly, or lychnis, common in that part of the 

 world, and much ufed by them in a dccodion to cure fwcll- 

 ings of the legs. Petiver has called it lychnis Guineenjis 

 fruHu caryphyltoide foitis roris marini, hirfutis, angujlioribui. 

 Phil. Tranf. N^ 232. 



VUOD, ill Mythology, a god of the Arabians. 



VURNWEY, in Geography, a river of North Wales, in 

 the county of Montgomery, which runs into the Severn, 

 on the borders of Shroplhire. 



VUSHOLTG, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak ; 

 60 miles N. of Ifpahan. 



UVSKOl, a town of Ruflia, in the government of To- 

 bollk, on the Irtifch ; 68 miles N. of Tobolflc. 



VUT.SHIM, a town of Sclavonia ; 18 miles N. of 

 Pefoega. 



UVULA, in An.itotny, the fmall conical body, projeft- 

 ing from ihe middle of llie foft palate. . See Di-GLfilTtov. 



Uvi.'l.A, Difeafe and Amputation of. Wlien the uvula is 

 permanently elongated, fo as to interrupt fwallowing, and 

 occafion uncafinels in the throat, coughing, vomiting, &c. 

 it is proper to remove the redundant j-art. 



Slight relaxations of the uvula may generally be cured by 

 aftringeiit gargles, compoled of the iiifulion of rotes, alum, 

 tindure of bark, &c. When, however, the iiiconvenicnee 

 cannot be removed by fiich means, the fuperfluous portion 

 of the uvula may be cut olf with a pair of ftiarp iciflars. 



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