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Le Vautour Royal de Pondichery, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 182. pi. 104.
g I Z E of a large Goo/e. The bill black, pretty hooked, but rather
fhort; the bafe covered with a naked Ikin j the noftrils
pervious : the forehead is flat, and the head large: the head and
neck flelh-coloured; the hind part of the head, and the fpace between
the bill and eyes, covered with flelh-coloured down : the
fore part o f the neck and breaft fparingly befet with fine feathers
o f the fame colour, placed in tufts j on the neck is a flelhy red
membrane, very fmall, bare of feathers, which begins beneath the
ears, and reaches to the loweft part o f the neck: the back, belly,
wings, and tail, are black : the legs yellow.
Inhabits Pondicherry, in the Eaft Indies, and parts adjacent*
l e grand Vautour des Indes, Son. Voy. Ind. voL ii. p. 183. pi. 103.
g I Z E o f a Goofe. Bill black : irides red : the head and neck
bare of feathers, and o f a rufous colour j the head furnifhed
with a ftraggling down, refembling hair; the neck long in proportion,
and befet with tufts o f very fine feathers: the feathers of
the breaft ihort, and appear as if clipped or Ihaved ; thofe of the
lower part o f the neck behind are long, narrow, and pointed, and
o f a bright rufous colour: the wing coverts, back, and rump, the
colour o f umber, each feather tipped with a pale band : quills, tail,
and legs, black*
This inhabits India, and is very voracious : found in the daytime
on the banks o f xhe/ea, waiting for the dead jijh which are
there thrown up : fond of putrid carcafes, which ic often digs
up out o f the ground : it flies heavily, though the wings are very
ilrong. ^
Le Vautour de Gingi, Son, Voy. Ind. ii. p. 184.
g I Z E of a Turkey. In the bill not unlike that bird, and grey :
noftrils pervious : irides red: the forehead, cheeks, and throat,
are covered with a reddilh Ikin : the feathers o f the hind part of
the head and neck, long, narrow, and w hite: the wing coverts,
back, belly, and tail, o f the fame colour: the quills black : legs
grey.
This inhabits the coaft o f Coromandel, where the inhabitants call
it the W ild Turkey.
This perhaps is the Vulture mentioned in the EJfais Philojo-
fhicjues, laid to be almoft wholly w hite: the head and neck covered
with fine, Ihort, briftly feathers : quills long, and towards
the ends o f a blackifli grey. This bird is faid to fly quick and
light, to be very voracious and timid; and moftly found fingly
on feme hillock in the marlhes where it feeds, which it does on-
carrion j but prefers ref tiles, when to be had.
Another is alfo mentioned in the fame book*, o f the fize o f a
Turkey: the male o f a marbled brown 5 the female, iron-grey:
head and half the neck naked, wrinkled, and covered with reddifts
yellow excrefcences, with fcattered hairs between. This may perhaps
have fome relation to the other, as it is faid to be very like'
the King Vulture, though not the fame bird. It is often met with
in flocks o f twenty or thirty, eating the flelh o f a dead beaft.
* Iff. Philo/, p. 58.
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