VULTURE. 



white on the ^vings. The head naked, and furnished with an 

 elevated, indented comb, ^\ ith the addition of wattles on the sides, 

 but the naked parts wholly brown. This bird was not very yonng, 

 having been in possession of the owner more than twelve months. 

 It seems to form a link between the Condur, now sufficiently known, 

 and the Califomian Vulture, but whether allied to either, or form- 

 ing a distinct species, we cannot at present determine. 



2.— GALIFORNIAN. 



Vultur Californianus, /«(/. 0;»..S'Mp. p. ii. iVaf.iWwo.pl. 301. Shaw's Zoo! . v. vii. p. 10. 

 Catharte, Tern. Man. ed. 2. Anal. p. xlviii. 

 Californian Vulture, Gen. Si/n. Sup. ii. p. 3. 



THIS is a large species, nearly approaching in size to the Condur. 

 Tlie bill pale ; plumage in general black; but the second cpiills have 

 whitish tips, and the wing coverts incline to brown ; nnder wing- 

 coverts mixed with white. The wings, w hen closed, reach beyond 

 the tail. The head and neck are bare and dusky ; across the breast, 

 a darker bar, and two others of the same on the hind-head ; the lower 

 parts of the neck surrounded with a ruff of slender black feathers ; 

 nnder parts of the body covered ^-jith loose downy ones. Tail, even 

 at the end. Legs, black. 



This bird was bronght from California, by Mr. Menzies, in his 

 expedition with Capt. Vancouver, and is now in the Biitish Museum. 

 It seems to have some affinity with the Condm-. 



