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B.— Vulturfulvus, IniL Orn. i. p. 6. Bris. 1. 462. Id. Svo. i. 1.3'2. G'erhi. Orn. i. t. 10. 



Gmel. It. iv. 179. Pal/, n. Norcl. Beijtr. iv. 58. Gm. Lin. 1. 249. Baud. Orn. ii. 



17. >SAau'. ;?oo/. vii. p.27, pi. 11. Te/n. Man, p. 3. ^rf. <?</. 2. p. 6. 

 Vultur fulvus boetico congjemer. Rail p. 10. rFiV/. p, 36. t. 4. f. 1. 

 Griffon, Btif. 1. 151. Robert. Ic. pi. x. 

 Fulvous Vulture, Geii.Syn.i, 17. Will. Eng, 67. Alb, iih Ul, 



THE length of this bird is 3ft. 6 in. breadth 8ft, bill blue grey, 

 with a black tip; head, neck, and ruff, white; plumage, above 

 rufous grey, Avith some mixture of white on the wing coverts ; quills 

 and tail black ; the middle of the breast bare of feathers, being only 

 coA ered Avith down, like the neck ; under parts of the body mixed 

 with nifous grey; legs downy, and ash coloured ; claws black. 



The difficulty of ascertaining the different species is in no 

 instance stronger than in the ^^ulture Genus, as has been elsewhere 

 remarked. This is likely to continue, unless the traveller and man 

 of science could be oftener united in one person . 



In respect to the three last described birds, it has been noticed, 

 by a very intelligent naturalist,* and accurate observer, that they all 

 form but one species, Avhich he had the opportunity of identifying, 

 during a long residence at Gibraltar, at Avhich place they are to be 

 seen in all their various stages, at different seasons ; great allowance 

 being likewise made, not only for the different periods of age or sex, 

 independent of the bird being in a healthy and plump state, or in 

 an emaciated condition. 



These inhabit the rock of Gibraltar, at various seasons ; sup- 

 posed to coni« from Barbary, and other parts of Africa, in their way 

 to Spain, where they are also met with, and, we believe, occasionally 

 in other warmer parts of Europe. They generally pass in flocks of 



* Thfi late Rev. John White, who h^d his doubts whether even the Cinereous Vulture was 

 not a further variety. 



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