22 VULTURE. 



13.— MALTESE. 



Vultur fuscus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 5. Gni. Lin. 1. 248.- Bris. 1. 455. Id. 8vo. 130. Daudin. 



Orn.u. p. 18. Tern. Man. d' Orn. T^.b. 18, Id. Ed. 2. p. 9. ~<.^'. 



Vultur Vilain, Zoo/, rfe* Pyr. (Piest de la Perouge), 

 Avoltaio, Griffon, Cet. Uc. Sard. p. 1. - ■ ■■ ■ , 



Vautour de Malte, Buf. i. 161. PL enl. 427. 

 Maltese Vulture, Gen. Syn. i. 15. 



SIZE of a small turkey. Bill black ; head covered with browii 

 down ; neck clothed Avith narrow feathers ; plumage in general brown ; 

 prime quills darker, and white at the tips, spotted with brown ; tail 

 grey brown ; legs naked, yellowish. 



This is not uncommon at Malta and Sardinia. We have supposed 

 it to be a further variety of the Ash-coloured Vulture, but, according 

 to M. Temminck, it is a young bird of the Angola Vulture, in the 

 first years plumage. 



14._P0NDICHERRY. 



Vultur Ponticerianus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 7. Uaud. ii. p. 11. Shatv''s Zool. vii. p. 25. Nat. 



Misc. pi. 941. 

 Vautour Royal de Pondicher}', Son. Voy. Ind. ii, p. 104, 

 Pondicherry Vulture, Gen. Syn, Sup. p. 6. 



SIZE of a goose. Bill black, hooked, short ; base naked ; head 

 and neck naked and flesh coloured ; hind head and between the bill 

 and eyes downy, and flesh colovired ; neck and breast tufted with fine 

 feathers ; on each side of tlie neck a fleshy carunculated membrane. 



