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A FLOCK OK 80UTH AMERICAN' VULTURES. 



He is a magnificent bird, of about two 

 feet and a half in length, and upwards 

 of five feet across the expanded wings. 

 The neck is brilliantly coloured of a fine 

 jmon tint ; both sides of the neck, from the 

 ears downwards, are of a rich scarlet. The 

 crown of the head is scarlet, and between the 

 lower mandible and the eye, and close to the 

 eye, there is a part which has a fine blue ap- 

 pearance ; the skin which juts out behind the 

 neck, like a carbuncle, is partly blue and partly 

 orange. The bill is orange and black. Round 

 the bottom of the neck is a broad ruff of soft, 

 downy, ash-gray feathers, and the back ami tail- 



