ANECDOTES, 



AND 



Additional Accounts 



OF SOME 



Subjeéls in Natural Hiftory. 



The Bearded Vulture. 



N laying this bird before the Royal So- 

 ciety, as a fubjedt unknown, my friend. 

 Dr. Parfons, took particular notice of two large 

 groups of feathers that fall on the fides of the 

 lower part of the back or rump, and fill up the 

 Ipaces or gaps between the back and wings, 

 when the wings are clofed ^ and having obferved 

 the like feathers in Eagles to be raifed up at the 

 pleafure of the bird, he examined thefe in the 

 Bearded Vulture, and found them to be no part 

 of the wing, but that they had their bottoms 



fixed 



