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black. Quills and tail rather darker than the back, the latter longish, 

 rounded at the end, and the quills reach to about half its length. 

 The legs and toes are moderately stout, dirty yellow, and scaly ; claws 

 of the same coloin*, somewhat strait, and blunt at the ends. 

 Inhabits New Soutli AYales— Gen. Da vies. 



28.— CHERIWAY, 



Vultur Clieriway, /n(7. Orn. i. p. 8. Shaw's Zool. \u. p. 4.3. 



Falco Cheriway, Gm. Lin. i. 254. Jacq. Vog. p. 17. t. 4. Daudin, ii. p. 42. 



Cheriway Vulture, Gen. Si/n. Sup. p. 5. 



THIS is fidl 2^ feet in length. Bill pale blue ; head and neck 

 very pale yellow ; hind-head crested ; cere, and round the eyes rose 

 colour ; plumage in general ferruginous, paler beneath ; vent white ; 

 quills and tail dusky black, the middle feathers of the latter barred 

 M ith dusky ; legs pale yellow. 



Inhabits the Island of Aruba, on the coast of Venetzuela, in 

 South America. 



29.— BOLD. 



Vultur aiidax, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. ii. Shaw's Zool. vii. p. 45. 

 Bold Vulture, Gen. Si/n. Sup. ii. p. 10. 



SIZE uncertain. Bill pale yellow, with a black tip ; plumage 

 deep brown ; sides of the head bare as far as the eyes, and somewhat 

 beneath them, and the colour of these parts very pale ; quills and 



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