AFRICA. S3 
to it fome nev/ or interefiing fubjeds, and my 
wifhes were not cllfappointed. But how was 
I to get within fhot of thefe birds without their 
perceiving me ? And if they did perceive me, 
there was no probability of my coming near 
them. My only method v/as to conceal my- 
felf among the brufliwood, near a place where 
there w^as plenty (.^ dama antelopes^ and to 
wait with patience till the birds darted on 
their prey. This device fucceeded ; and I 
was indebted to it for fevcral new^ and fcarce 
birds, of which I fliall give a defcription in my 
ornithology. 
In this diftrid I killed, among others, a vul- 
ture, of a pale yellowifli carnation (blanc ifa^ 
belle J. The Dutch planters call it witte-kraai^ 
(the white crow) : though it is far from being 
a crow, and is certainly a vulture. By the Ni- 
miquas It Is called ouri-gourap ; another very 
common bird in thefe mountains, of which 
alfo I fliall fpeak hereafter, and which is allied 
in its charafter both to the vulture and the 
crow, and forms between them an intermedi-^ 
ate genus. Its plumage is black ; but, having a 
white patch on the hinder part of the neck, 
it has thence, in the colonievS, received the ap- 
VoL. II. 1) pellation 
