VULTURE, 



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24— ABYSSINIAN. 



MR. SALT * observes, that vast numbers of Vultures are found 

 throughout Abyssmia, following the annies in times of war, and 

 mentions a large one, which he supposes to be new. In this the bill 

 is bright orange colour, strongly hooked ; the space under the orbit of 

 the eye, and the whole of the neck bare, and flesh coloured ; its head 

 dirty white, \vith a hood or crest of a spongy substance, covered with 

 do^vn on the back of it. It had a large ruff of dark feathers round 

 the base of the neck, and the whole of the upper part of the body of 

 a cinereous brown colour. 



25.— CHINCOr. 



Le Chincou, Levaill. Ois. afr. pi. 12. Daud. 2. p. 12, 



EXTENT of wing nine feet. The bill is bluish white, thick at 

 the base, and hom coloured at the tip ; plumage in general brown ; on 

 the top of tlie head is a loose downy crest; the rest of the head, 

 cheeks, and throat, covered with a tine black down ; eyelids white ; on 

 the neck a ruff of narrow slender feathers; forepart of the neck bluish ; 

 over the crop an appendage hanging like a bladder ; quills and tail 

 dusky ; legs whitish ; claws horn colour. 



Said to inhabit China — in the menagerie of M. Ameshof, near 

 Amsterdam. When this bird is at rest, it draws the head into the ruli' 

 with the bill supported on the crop, and the wings drooping down. 

 It is a very .spitetul bird, and may be fed on raw flesh, which it devours 

 very greedily. i 



* Voy. Abyss, p. xliii. 



