32 VULTURE. 



but when the desarts are set on fire, which happens ahnost daily, in 

 some part or other, for the purpose of rousing game, &e. ; and not 

 unfrequently by lightning, by which multitudes of serpents, frogs, 

 and lizards, are scorched to death, and serve as dainty morsels to the 

 Vultures, which flock to such parts, to feed on them, and often so 

 glut themselves, as to fall an easy prey to the hunter. 



7 — CARRioK— pl. nr. 



Vultur Aura. Iiid. Orn. 1. p, 4. Lin. Sijst.l. 122. Gm. Lin. i. 246. Daud.'u. 19, 



Shaw's Zool. vii. 36. Amer. Orn. ix. 96. pi. 75. 1. 

 Vultur Brasiliensis, Urubu, Tzopilotl, Autu, Rail. p. 10, 180. Will. 56. Id. Angl^ 



6S. Briss. \. 468. /rf. 8«o. 135. Kldn. Av. U. Gcrin i. t.l3. 

 Gallinazo, Ulloa. It. 60. Id. Voy. 56. 

 L'Acabiray, Voy. d'Azar. iii. p. 23. 

 Vautourdu Bresil, Biif.'\. 175. 

 Catliarte, Tein. Man, Ed. 2. Anal.- p. xlviii. 

 Turkey Buzzard, Cat. Car. i. pi. 6 Phil. Trans, xvil. 991. 

 Carrion Vulture, G<?H. iSyH. i. p. 5. Id. Sup. p. 2. Sloan. Jam. W. p. 254. Brown Jam^ 



471. Damp. Voy. ii. pi. 2. p. 67. Arct. Zool. i\. No. 86, Wood's Zoogr. i. 375. 



THIS bird is nearly the same.sizeas the Khig Vulture; general 

 length, about two feet; extent of wing, four feet or more; the bill 

 white, M itli a black tip ; irides, bluish saffron colour ; the head and 

 part of the neck, bare and rufous red ; sides of the head v^arted,- as 

 in the turkey; whole plumage, brown black with a purplish and 

 green gloss in different lights; quills and tail somewhat darker than 

 the rest, the last near seven inches long, and cuneiform ; legs flesh 

 colour, smooth before ; at the usual place of the neck the feathere 

 are ratlier fuller and more slender, but scarcely sufficient to consti- 

 tute, what may be called a ruff, except in very old birds. 



