. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. It 256 WANDERINGS IN SOtTH When I liad done with the carcass Oi' the i;irge snake, it was conveyed into the forest, as I expected that it woukl attract the king of the vultures, as soon as time shoukl have rendered it sufficiently savoury. In a few days it sent forth that odour which a carcass should send fortli, and aljout
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. It 256 WANDERINGS IN SOtTH When I liad done with the carcass Oi' the i;irge snake, it was conveyed into the forest, as I expected that it woukl attract the king of the vultures, as soon as time shoukl have rendered it sufficiently savoury. In a few days it sent forth that odour which a carcass should send fortli, and aljout twenty of the common vultures came and perched on the neighbouring trees ; the king of the vultures came too; and I observed that none of the common ones seemed inclined to be^in breakfast till majesty had finished. When he had consumed as mucli snake as nature informed him would do him good, he retired to the top of a high mora-tree, and then all the common vultures fell to, and made a hearty meal. The head and neck of the king of the vultures are bare of feathers ; but the beautiful appearance they exhibit fades in death. The throat and the back, of the neck are of a fine lemon colour; both side-; of the neck, from the ears down^vards, of a rich scarlet; Itehind the corrugated }»art there is a white spot. Tlie crown of the head is scarlet; betwixt the lower mandible and the eye, and close by the ear, then n part whit h has a fine silvery blue appearance ; the part is of a dirty light brown ; behind it, and just above the white spot, a portion of the skin is blue, and the rest scarlet; the skin which juts out behind the neck, and appears like an oblong caruncle, is blue in part, and part orange. The bill is orange and black, the caruncles on his fore- head orange, and the cere orange ; the orbits scarlet, and the irides white. Below the bare part of the neck there is a cinereous ruff. The bag of the stomach, which is only seen wlien distended with food, is of a
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