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Sarcoramphus. — America produces some Vultures remarkable 
for the carunculae surmounting the membrane at the base of their 
beak, which is large as in the preceding, but the nostrils are oval 
or longitudinal. These are the Sarcoramphi of Dumeril. F ultur 
Papa, Lin. {Ki7ig of the Cultures, Latham) fig. 28. F ultur 
Grjpkus [Great Fulture of the Andes) , fig. So, which habitually 
prefers an elevation at which the mercury of the barometer sinks 
to about sixteen inches. (1) 
The Percnopteri have the beak thin, long, and swelled 
above. Its head only, and not the neck, naked of feathers. These 
are birds of a moderate size, and their force does not approach that 
of the Vultures properly so called. They are therefore much more 
eager after carrion and all sorts of oiFal, which attracts them from 
a great distance. They do not even refuse excrements. F ultur 
Percnop. [Egyptian Fulture ^ Alpine Fulture, Latham), fig. 27. 
F ultur Aura [Turkey Buzzard, Latham). 
GENUS in. FALCO. 
SUB-GENEllA. 
1. NOEILES. 
A sharp tooth at Second feather of 
each side of the point the wing the longest, 
of the beak. Fig. 35. Wings as long and 
longer than the tail. 
2. Hiero-Falco, Cuv. 
A festoon^ instead of Tail longer than the 
a tooth, on each side wing, which is the 
of the point of the same as that of the 
beak. Fig. 33. Nobiles. 
3. loNOBILEf. 
A slight feitoon in Fourth feather of 
themiddleof the beak, the wing the longest. 
Fig. 34. p. 21. 
(1) I expect that the Yulture of Ashantee will form a subdivision in 
the Sarcoramphi^ which have hitherto only been found in America. 
Its cera is crowned with a caruncula, which, when the bird is Hying, 
is small, bmt when it is seeking food, is so much elongated as to hang 
over the tip of the beak; when in the act of feeding, or when satiated, 
it hangs on one side to the length of two inches. This caruncula, and 
the skin of the head and neck, is wrinkled like that of a Turkey, and 
generally of a deep red, but sometimes of a pale livid blue. The 
plumage is dark brown, and it performs the same offices as the Per- 
cnopterus. 
