16 VULTURE. 



9— ALPINE. 



Vultur Percnopterus, Lid.Orn.'i. p. -2. Lin. Si/st.'\. 123. Gm.Lin.i. 249. Gmel. Ft. 



iii. 364. p. 37. Borowsk, Nat. ii. 65. Nat. 3Iisc, pi. 141. Shaw. Zoo/, vii. p. ,33. 



Fn. Arag. p. 67. Sepp. Vog. 5. t. p- 395, 

 Le Percnoptere, Buf. i. 149. PI. Enl. 426 (tlie female). LevaU. Foy. Svo. i. 48. Daud. 



Orn. ii. 13. 

 Grossester Geyer, Naturf. S. S. 41. 

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

 Alpine Vulture, Gen.Syn.X. 12. Id.Sup.i^.Z. Snp.W. pi. 4. 



THIS measures often more than two feet in length — the bill is 

 black, with a yellow cere; head and neck covered Avith a pale 

 yellowish down, at the lower part the feathers narrow and elongated, 

 but scai'cely in quantity sufficient to be called a ruff. The plumage, 

 in general, is white, except the c|uills, w hich are blacJv with hoary 

 edges, and the two outer wholly black. 



A.— Vultur .Egyptius, 7»rf. OrH. i. p. 2. No. 3. /3. Bm. i. 457. /</. 8vo. 1. 131. Gm. 



Lin. i. 249. Belon. Obs. 110. t. p. 111. Ahlr. Av.u 378. t. p. 379. 

 Sacre d'Egypte, Buf. i. 107. 

 Egyptian Vulture, Gen. Si/n. i. 13. 



Size of a kite, with the plumage of a nifous ash colour, spotted 

 with brown ; in other respects not unlike the last, and is probably a 

 young bird. Is common aljoiit the Pnamids of Egypt, living on 

 <anion, and is, as well a« the Ibis, in great esteem, for destroying- 

 snakes and reptiles ; hence it may he observed frequently engraven 

 in plates — is called, about Orand Cairn, Achbobl>a.* 



* Sliaw's Trav. ii. pp. 9. 92. 



