CARRION VULTURE. 379 
The bodies of these birds retain a stench which 
nothing can remove. It is in vain that when killed 
the rump has been cut off, the body washed, and 
spices used to overpower its prevailing odour ; it 
still smells and tastes of the carrion by which it was 
nourished, and sends forth a stench that is unsup- 
portable. 
