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And the following Foreign species : 
BRAZILIAN CARACARA EAGLE. 
Polyborus vulgaris, Vieill. Falco Brasiliensis, Lath. Milvus Brasiliensis 
Caracara dictus, Ray. 
One of the specimens was presented by Hugh Cuming, Esq. 
ANGOLA VULTURES. 
Vultur Angolensis, Lath. 
Birds of considerable rarity. They have assumed their adult plumage 
since they were first placed in the Collection. They were, when young, 
of an almost uniform dusky black. 
It is somewhat singular that both the species regarded as of doubtful 
existence by Dr. Riippel, in his late Monograph of the Vultures, should 
now be living in the Society’s Menagerie ; the Angola and the sociable. 
Here also is an undescribed 
CHINESE VULTURE. 
Vultur leuconotus. Gray. 
Recently figured in General Hardwicke’s Illustrations of Indian Zoo- 
logy. 
SOCIABLE VULTURE. 
Vultur auricularis. Lath. L’Oricou, Le Vaill. 
From the Cape of Good Hope, occurring even close to Cape Town. 
It is the black Carrion Bird of the Dutch colonists. Its epithet of so- 
ciable was founded on the statement that several pairs build their nests 
together : this statement Dr. Andrew Smith considers erroneous. He 
has never met with more than one nest actually occupied upon the same 
tree. The error has probably originated in a new nest being occasionally 
built adjoining to an old one, which had been deserted on account of its 
having become unserviceable. The bird, he adds, seems but little disposed 
to sociability ; rarely more than two are seen together, and if four occur 
in the neighbourhood of a carcase, the number is considered as great : 
while of the Griffon Vulture it is by no means uncommon to see a hun- 
dred, or even more, congregated where carrion exists. 
Presented by the Hon. J. T. Leslie Melville. 
TURKEY VULTURE. 
Cathartes Aura, III. Vultur Aura, Linn. Turkey Buzzard, Catesby. 
Carrion Crow, Sloane. 
Native of America. — Presented by the President of the Society 
(Lord Stanley), and by Charles Marryatt, Esq. 
