32 VULTURE. 



26— CHAGOUN. 



Vautour Chagoun, Levaill. Ois. pi. 11. Daud. 2. p. 12. 



SIZE of a hen turkey; bill dusky horn colour; nostrils elongated, 

 placed transversely in a black cere; plumage in general black-brown ; 

 shafts of the breast and belly feathers white ; on each wing a large 

 white spot; quills and tail dusky; second quills bordered with rufous; 

 legs grey; middle toe twice as long as those on each side; claws black; 

 head and hind part of the neck covered with dirty white hairs; the 

 lower with down, and a large white ruff; fore part of the neck bluish, 

 with some straggling hairs ; appendage on the crop covered with fine, 

 silky, b]ack-bro^vn feathers. 



Inhabits Bengal, and called there Chagoun. 



27.— NEW HOLLAND.— Pl. VI. 



THE precise length and breadth of this fine Vulture I have not 

 been able to ascertain, but it is of a large size, for when standing erect 

 the head is 33 in. fi-om the ground. The bill is moderately hooked 

 and black ; the whole head and neck flesh coloured, inclining to 

 orange ; round the eyes and on the cheeks quite bare, but the rest 

 thick set witli short black bristles ; the back and wings dirty brown, 

 with a silky gloss in some lights, appearing black ; the lower part of 

 the back and rump brown black ; the under part, from the breast, 

 brown ; the feathers narrowly edged with pale colour, but those of the 

 breast are nearly black, and the pale margins broader, almost white ; 

 middle of the belly and thighs slightly varied with the pale colour ; 

 vent and under tail coverts loose, silky, and long, and in colour nearly 



