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the mouth : the sides of the neck are red, which 

 gradually becomes yellow in its fore part: there 

 runs a dirty yellow list down the hind part of the 

 neck ; and at the bottom of the neck a ruff of loose, 

 soft, ash-coloured feathers quite round, in which, 

 by contraction, it can hide its whole neck, and 

 sides of the head." 



This beautiful species is a native of many parts 

 of South- America, and is said to be also found in 

 the West-Indies. In its manners it resembles the 

 rest of this tribe, feeding on carrion, and occasion- 

 ally preying on several of the smaller animals, as 

 lizards, &c. &c. The most correct and expressive 

 figure is that of Edwards, which is therefore select- 

 ed for the present work. 



PLAINTIVE VULTURE. 



Vultur Plancus. VJ albidus, lineis transversis nigricatitihus, alis ' 



fuscis, vtrtice subcristuto nigra. 

 Whitish Vulture, with transverse blackish lines, brown wings, 



and slightly crested black crown. 

 Vultur Plancus. Lath, ind. orn. 



Falco Plancus. Lin. Gmel. Mill. Illustr. Nat, Hist. pi. 17. 

 "Plaintive Eagle. Lath. Si/nops. I. p, 34. 

 Plaintive Vulture, Lat/i. Synops. suppl. p. 4. 



From a kind of ambiguity of character which 

 the head of this species exhibits, Mr. Latham in 

 his excellent ornithological Synopsis, was induced 

 to place it in the genus Falco, and others have 

 since continued the same arrangement. In re- 



