white : greater wing coverts, and primaries, black; the laft tipped
with white; lower part of the tail black; the end white :
legs dirty white, and fcaly.
Mr. Pennant defcribed this from the fine collection of birds at
Bryn y pys, the feat of Richard Parry Price, Efq. There were
two of them which came from Angola. They were, fays he, “ very
“ reftlefs and querulous, and more active than is ufual with this
“ fluggilh race.”
Thefe are mow finely preferved in the L everian M useum.
Tawny Vulture, Brvwn's Illuft. p. 2. t. t.
p j 'HE bill is dulky, Ihort, and thick: cere large, and befet with
briftles : fpace between the bill and eyes naked; reft of the
-head covered with feathers : the chin bearded with a tuft of long
flender feathers : head, neck, back, breaft, belly, and thighs, of
a pale tawny-colour: coverts of the wings mixed with brown:
tail dirty white, barred with brown: legs flender, blueilh :
claws long, flightly bent. Length of the bird two feet four
inches. Inhabits Falkland Jjlands. — Defcribed from a ipecimen
in the Royal Society’s Mufeum.
L E N G T H two feet fix inches. The bill is ftout and thick,
being moftly crooked at the end, like other Vultures ; the
Eafe is lead-colour, the end black : the eyes are of a very dark
brown; the upper eye-lid belet with hairs like eye-lalhes : the
head and neck are bare of feathers, being covered only with a
D 2 down
TAWNY
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BENGAL
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