36 VULTURE. 



eyelids red; irides yellow; head doMaiy ; forehead, cheeks, and round 

 the eyes black, narrowing into a fillet behind each eye, meeting 

 at the nape, and encircling the head ; the neck covered with long, 

 narrow, whitish feathers, and a tuft of black ones under the lower 

 mandible; upper part of the back, &c. dark brown, under |>arts 

 brownish white ; legs downy; toes lead colour — the outer and middle 

 one joined by a sti'ong skin. 



This was brought from Santa Cruz, in Barbary. 



B.— Vultur aureus, Bris. i. 458, Id. 8vo. 132. liaii. Spi. p. 10. Nos. 3 and 5. JVilL 

 O™. p.35. Id. E}igI.\y.G7. PaU.n. nord. Bei/tr.iY. 84. S. G. Gmel. Il.iv. I8b~ 

 Grsn. J v.t.'m. p. 708; 



Vultur bcetlcus, Raii. p. 10. No. 3. Will. p. 35. No. 3. 



Chesnut Vulture, IVill. Engl. p. 6. No. 3. 



Golden Vulture, Will. Engl. p. 67. 5. t. 4. Gen. Syn. i, p. 18. 



This Vulture is more than 41 ft. in length ; head and hind part of 

 the neck rufous white ; body black above, and rufous beneath ; quills 

 and tail brown ; shafts of the featliers on the upper parts white ; legs 

 covered ^vith rufous down, as far as the toes, which are brown ; claws 

 honi colour, 



C— Fako raa<?nus, S. G. Gmelin It. lii. 365. t. 38. Gm. Lin. 1. 252. 38. y. Ind. Onu 

 i. p. 4. No. 6, y. 



This is said by Gmelin to have a blue cere; the plumage 

 brown, and vuider part of the body chesnut with a mixture of white ; 

 the tail ash colour. 



The two former of the birds recorded under this head as varieties 

 of each other, or rather the same bird, seem to admit of no doubt; the 

 two latter for want of a fuller description appear to be less certain, 

 though Gmelin affinn it. The probability is, that they may prove to 

 be the Vulture called Laemmergeyer* by the Germans, which is the 

 Bearded Vulture. This bird is a very ferocious species, and conse- 

 quently much dreaded. The places in which it is found are widely 



* Lamb Vulture — but several of the Eagles equally desti-oy lambs. 



