34 VULTURE. 



tail darker than the rest of the body, nearly black ; shins feathered 

 to tlie toes, flesh colour, dotted with black. 



Inhabits New Holland, is a fierce species, and called Boorra 

 Morang. The natives say, it kills the Pottegorang, and sometimes 

 attacks the natives themselves. 



30.-PLAINTIVE. 



Viiltur plancus, Ind. Orn. i. S. Shaw's Zool. vii, 41. 



Falco plancus, Gm.Lin.'u 257. Mill. ill. i>\. IT. Cook's Vay.'n. 184. pi. 32, Daud, 



ii. 42. 

 Plaintive Eagle, Gen. Si/n. i. p. 32. Id. Sup. p. 4. Vulture. 



THE length of this bird is 28 in.; bill 2 in. longv not much 

 hooked, black ; at about a quarter fi-om the end begins a yellow cere, 

 extending backwai'ds round the eyes, almost to the top of the head, 

 llie nostrils placed just within the cere. The colour of the whole of 

 the bare parts yellow; the fore part of the neck is nearly destitute of 

 feathers; top of the neck and head behind brown ; the upper part of 

 the body barred bro\vn and white; ^vings brown; tail white, crossed 

 with blackish bars, and the end, for an inch, of the same colour; the 

 base of the four first quills marked as the tail; legs yellow; claws black, 

 moderately hooked, and blunt at the end. 



Inhabits Terra del Fuego. 



