NATURAL HISTORY: ey 19 
depredations; they, therefore, dwell moftly in moun- 
tains, vifiting the fhores at night, when rain or tem. | 
petits drive their finny prey thither for fhelter. — 
They are chiefly to be found in the deferts of Pa- 
* chomac, where men feldom venture to travel; thofe 
_ wild regions being alone fufficient to in{pire the mind 
witha iecret horror, affording no other mufic but the 
roaring of wild beafts, and. the hifling of ferpents; 
while the adjacent mountains are rendered equally 
terrible from the Vifits of this deftructive bird. 
This bird ts thought, by naturalifts, to be the fame 
as. the rock, found 1m Arabia, the. Tarnaflar,.in the. 
Eat Lndies, and the large vulture, in senegal, : 
a > 
Pi 
y, Be oat ? ‘6 3 
5 ie Beh A a 
et 

—scsemenencoy— “Foe 
bh KING or tHE VULTURES, ) 
: Tuts bird differs. from the eagle, in its indelicate 
_. ¥Yoracity ; preying more upon carrion than live. ani- 
_ mals; which difpofition feems wilely adopted by prov- 
idénce ,as a-prevention againit the naufecus and epi- 
demical effects thar might otherwife arife from carca- 
fes being left to putrify on the earth. Its preying on 
the eggs of crockodiles, which lay each of thein at 
leait two or three hundfed, in the fands, is another 
difperfation of divine providence, in order to prevente 
-too great an increafe of thofe voracious and deftruc- 
- tive animals. : . : 
The form of this bird is diftinguifhed from the ea- 
gle, by the nakednefs of its head and neek, though, 
_ not being deftined te prey particularly on living birds, 
 &c. their flight is'‘not equal to that of the eagle, falcon,’ 
- orhawk. But, being allured by putrefaction, * their 
iis 
a 


_ ¥enfe of {fmelling is proportionably exquiftte. Happi- 
dy forus, itis a ftranger to England, while it is found 
» in Arabia, Egypt, and many parts of Africa and Afia, ° 
_ There is a down under the wings, whichin the Afri- 
can markets is frequently feldas avaliable fur. 
» 
i 
wf ’ 
Pidl 
. r fate ae Ty 
i # et  Saty 
a * $34 e 
pet eth 
i 5 i ' 
id " ‘ . h AR), ‘ ld 
j iy ts - 
P \ a 
~~ ” ro a A 
. * 
