VULTURE. 21 



12— ANGOLA. 



Vultur Angolensis, Ind. Om.i.p. 7. ' -Gin. Lin.i.- 252. Mus. Lev. t. i. Daud. Orn. ii. 



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Cathartes Percnopterus, CathartE Alimoche, Tew. i>/aM. d'Onj. p. 5» 

 L'Oiirigourap, Levaill. Ois. 62. pi. 14. 

 Vautour de Norvege, PL enl. 429.* 

 Rachamah, Bruce Tr. 5. t. p. 163. 

 Angola Vulture, Gen. Syiu i. 18. Penn. Wales, i. 228. t. 19. 



THIS is about half as big again as the kite — the bill whitish, 

 Jong, and but little hooked ; cere bluish ; orbits flesh coloured and 

 naked ; irides straw coloured ; head and neck clothed with feathers ; 

 craw pendulous; plumage in general snow white; greater wing 

 coverts and primaries black, the last tipped with white ; lower part of 

 the tail black, the end white ; legs dirty white and scaly. 



Two of these were brought from Angola, and placed in the 

 collection of Richard Parry Price, Esq. at Brynn y Pys ; they were 

 very restless and querulous, and more active than is usual with this 

 sluggish race. One of them was preserved after death, and long filled 

 a place in the maseum of the late Sir Ashton Lever. Levaillant found 

 it at the Cape of Good Hope. 



* In this Plate the tail is -Hrholly white. 



