10.
BLACK
V.
D escription.
Le Vautour noir, Srif. ora. i. p. 457. N° 4.
Le Vautour, PI. enl. 425 ?
Vultur niger, Raii. Syn. p. 9, N° 2.
Black Vulture, Will. ora. p. 66, Chap. v. N® 2.
Swarthy Vulture, Chari. ex. p. 71, Ny 4.
tj" HIS fpecies is wholly black, except the wings and tail, which
are brown: the legs are covered with feathers to the toes.
It exceeds every way the Golden Vulture in fize, and is found
frequently in Egypt.
M. Buffon fays *, that it is a mere variety of the Cinereous
Vulture, N° 8; to which I can fay nothing: but muft remark,
once for all, that it will be frequently found impoflible fo to reconcile
the various fentiments of authors, as to place them all
upon one juft bafis. We fhall therefore be obliged, not only in
this, but in many other inftances throughout this work, to leave
things as they are found, letting every reader adhere to the opinion
he ftiall belt approve of, rather than obtrude one of our
own, except upon very folid grounds, and for which good rea-
fons will be given.
* Oif. vol. i. p. 163.
Le
Le Vautour fauve, Sri/, ora. i. p. 46a. N° 7.
Le Griffon, Ru/.oif. i, p, 131.
Vultur fulvus, boetico congener Pel.—Raii. &ya. p. 10. N° 7,
fulvous Vulture, Will, ora. p. 67. N° 7.
Vulture, Albia. iii. p. 1. t. 1.
* |^HIS bird exceeds the Eagle in fize, being, according to
Briffon, three feet fix inches in length, and eight feet in
breadth. The bill in colour is blue grey, with the tip black:
the head, neck, and ruff, white: parts above rufous-grey, with
fome mixture of white in the wing-coverts : quills and tail
black . middle of the breaft bare of1 feathers, and covered with a
downy matter, or rather hair, which is of the colour of the
back: the under parts are white, mixed with rufous-grey: legs
‘"li-coloured, covered with white down: claws black.
M. de Buffon doubts whether this is not a variety of the Golden
Vulture j and Ray, from the name he applies to it, feems of the
fame opinion.
Le Vautour hupé, Brif. orn• i» p. 460. N° 6»
Le Vautour a Aigrettes, Buf. oif i. p. 159.
Vultur leporarius Gefneriy Raii Syn. p. io. N° 4«
•Hare Vulture, Will. orn. p. 67» N° 4»
T H ^ S 's rather lefs than the Golden Vulture, or next fpecies,
and is all over of a fhining reddilh black ; the breaft much
inclining to a fulvous colour. The bill is black: the legs yellow:
claws dufky, or black.
11.
FULVOUS.
V.
D escription.
12.
HARE
V.
D escrip t ion,
D While