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ARABIAN
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D.esæription
carunculated dentated fkin or flap, which hangs over one or the
other fide of the bill indifferently, as the bird turns it’s head.
The fpace round the eyes is of a faffron-colour; the iris of the
eye whitifh. The crown of the head, and the neck, are bare of
feathers; the whole of which it can draw into a large ruff of
loofe afh-coloured feathers, which are placed on the fhoulders.
A fillet of biackifh down encompafies the head, arifing from the
hindhead. A t the corner of the bill, between that and the eyes,
is a purple brown fpot. - The upper parts of the body are of .a
reddifh buff-colour; under parts white, with a tinge of yellow:
quills greenifh black: tail black: craw pendulous and orange-
coloured : the legs are dirty white : claws black. — This bird is
a native of South America and the VE’Ji Indies: it lives on carrion,
and feeds alfo on rats, lizards, fnakes, and excrement of all kinds;
and in courfe is of a difagreeable odour, from the nature of the
food it lives on.
Vultur monachus, Lin, Syjl. i. p< 122. Np4.
* Le Vautour d'Arabie, Brij, orn. app. p. 29.
Crelled black Vulture, Ednv, orn. t. 290.
A CCORDING to Edwards, the fize exceeds that of a common
eagle, by one third. The bill is blueilh at the bafe; at the
end black: the cere is blue: irides hazel. The head and neck
are covered with downy afh-coloused feathers. The crown of the
head is gibbous, and elevated into a large knob. The orbits are
white. On the fhoulders is placed an afh-coloured ruff of loofe
feathers, into which it can draw it’s head during fleep. The
colour of the body is dyfky .brown, nearly black, above; beneath,
the
the fame, but paler : leller wing coverts tipped with white:
tail the colour of the body: thigh-feathers lo loofe and long,
as nearly to cover the legs. The legs themfelves are of a blueilh
colour : claws black. — This bird was fhewn alive in London, in
the year 1757, and faid by the keeper to have come from
Arabia,
Vultur aura, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 122*
Le Vautour du brefil, BriJ. orn. i. p. 468. N° 10.
------------------------- Buff. oif. i. p. 175.
■ -------- PI. enl. N° 187.
Vultur brafilienfis, Rati Syn. p. 10. Carrion Crow, p. 180.
Urubu, Tzopilotl, or Aura. Will. orn. p. 68.
Carrion Crow, Sloan. Jam. ii. p. 294. t. 254.
Gallinazo, Ulloa*s Voy. v. i. p. 60. 201.
Turkey Buzzard, Catejb. Car.i. t. 6.
Carrion Vulture, Am. Zool*. N°
Br. MuJ. Lev. Muf.
THE fize of this fpecies is about that of a Turkey, though it
varies in fize in different parts. The bill is white; the end
black: irides blueilh faffron-colour. The head, and part of the
neck, are bare of feathers, and of a red, or rather rufous colour.
The fides of the head warted, not unlike that of a Turkey. The
* I here refer to the Zoology of North America, and that of the northern
AJiatic and European regions ; at this time near completed, by 'Thomas Pennant,
Efq.
As the running number is not yet fixed, I am obliged, in my references, to
leave a blank N ° ; which the reader may, on publication of the work, readily
fill up with his pen«
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