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SERPENTARIUS. SNAKE-EATER. 



Generic Character. 



Rostrum vulturinum. 

 Lingua acuminata. 

 Pedes longissimi. 



Beak vulturine. 

 Tongue pointed, 

 Legs very long. 



AFRICAN SNAKE-EATER. 



Serpentarius Africanus. S. cimrcus, occipite cristafo, cauda 



cuneatUy rectricibus mcdiis elongatis. 

 Ash-coloured Snake-Eater, with the hind-head crested, the 



tail cuneated, and the middle tail-feathers lengthened. 

 Sagittarius. Vosmaer monogr. tab, 8. 

 Secretary or Sagittarius. Fkil. Trans. 6l. p. 175. 

 The Snake-Eater. Memoirs of G. Edwards, p. 34. 

 Secretaire. Sonnerat voy. p. 87. t. 50. 

 Vultur Serpentarius. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Secretary Vulture. Lath. syn. 



Falco Serpentarius. Lin.Gmel. Miller III, "N^t. Hist, pL 2^. 

 Vultur Serpentarius. Cimelia Physica, t. 28. 



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 HE bird which constitutes the present genus 



is so much allied in its principal characters to the 



Vulture tribe, that it has been associated with 



those birds by one of the first ornithologists of the 



present age. It has indeed been more generally 



