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HAVING given you an account 

 of the moft curious Animals in this clafs 

 of Quadrupedes, I fhall next proceed to 

 the Defcription of Birds inhabiting 

 the aerial regions of Guiana* which, for 

 the variety, vivacity, and luftre of co- 

 lours that adorn their plumage, are no 

 where excelled. Thefe I fhall range in 

 the order which Linnceus has obferved, 

 in the tenth edition of his Syjiema Na- 

 ture?. 



The Vultur is by Linn a: us defined, 4 

 bird with a ftreight beak, and crooked 

 point ; a head without feathers, naked 

 before, and a cloven tongue. The only 

 Vultur I have ever feen in Guiana is the 

 dufky grey Vultur with black wings, 

 and a white beak. It has been defcri- 

 bed by Shane and Ray, and is common 

 to Brafily Terra Firma, &c. 



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