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down of a deep brown colour; but the fore part of it, from the
chin to the bread:, is quite bare ; of a dfrty light brown, and
fomewhat wrinkled : lower part of the neck,, all round, is thinly
fet with narrow feathers, like a ruff: the body above,, is of a
deep black brown: the wing coverts have pale lhafts ; the
quills very dark, almod black; beneath, the colour is paler,
than on the upper parts: the lhaft of each feather white,,
or very pale buff-colour: thighs the fame : the crop hangs,
over the bread, as in many of the Vulture genus : the legs are
drong, much warted, and of a deep brown colour: claws,
black.
The fpecimen from which the above defcription. was taken, is,
now alive in the Tower. The keeper informed me, that it came-
from Bengal:
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SECRETARY
V.
MefTager du Cap de bonnè Efperance, PI. enl. yzw
Sagittarius, Vofmaer monog. tab. 8.
Secretaire, Son. Voy. p. 87. t. 50.
P late It. Falco ferpentarius, J . F. Miller. t. 28.
Secretary, or Sagittarius, Phil. Tranf. vol. lxi. p. 175-.
Lev. Muf.
R escrjetion*
I T H I S is a. mod lingular fpecies, being particularly remarkable
from the great length of it’s legs; which, at fird fight,,
would induce one to’ think it belonged to waders : but the-
charadters of the Vulture are fo drongly marked throughout, as
to leave no doubt to which clafs it belongs..
The bird, when danding eredt,, is. full three feet from the top
of the head to the ground. The bill is black, fharp, and.
crooked,.