. A general synopsis of birds . op hangsover the breaft, as in many of the Vulture genus : the legs areftrong, much waned, and of a deep brown colour : The fpecimen from which the above defcription was taken, is- now alive in the Tower. The keeper informed me, that it came:from Bengal. 7* MefTager du Cap de bonne Efperance, PI. enl. 7?I» SECRETARY c -f • „> /, „ Sagittarius, rojmaer monog. tab. 8. Secretaire, Son. Voy. p. 87. t. 50. Plate II, Falco ferpentarius, J. F. Miller, t. 28. Secretary, or Sagittarius, Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixi. p. 175^ Lev. Muf. ^T, HIS is a moft fingu
. A general synopsis of birds . op hangsover the breaft, as in many of the Vulture genus : the legs areftrong, much waned, and of a deep brown colour : The fpecimen from which the above defcription was taken, is- now alive in the Tower. The keeper informed me, that it came:from Bengal. 7* MefTager du Cap de bonne Efperance, PI. enl. 7?I» SECRETARY c -f • „> /, „ Sagittarius, rojmaer monog. tab. 8. Secretaire, Son. Voy. p. 87. t. 50. Plate II, Falco ferpentarius, J. F. Miller, t. 28. Secretary, or Sagittarius, Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixi. p. 175^ Lev. Muf. ^T, HIS is a moft fingular fpecies, being particularly remark-able from the great length of its legs ; which, at firft fight,would induce one to think it belonged to waders:: but thecharacters of the Vulture are fo ftrongly marked throughout, asto leave no doubt to which clafs it The bird, when ftanding erect, is full three feet from the top of the head to the ground. The bill is black,, fharp, and crooked, P<.L. P. y/ce tjji-c-re-^uri/ Jl/?v- VULTURE. ai crooked, like that of an Eagle : cere white : round the eyesbare of feathers, and of a deep yellow or orange-colour : theirides pale grey : the upper eye-lid befet with ftrong briftles,like eye-lafhes : the head, neck, breaft, and upper parts of thebody, are of a blueifh afh-colour : baflard wing, prime quills,vent, and thighs, black; in the laft, the feathers have white tips :tail rounded, brownifh afh ; the end,*for above an inch, black;the tip white: the two middle feathers the fame in colour asthe others, but more than, as long again as any of them : thelegs are very long, ftouter than thofe of a Heron, and of abrown colour : claws lhortifh, but crooked, not very fharp, andof a black colour: from the hind head fprings a number oflong feathers, which bang loofe behind, like a pendent creft:thefe feathers arife by pairs, and are longer as they are lowerdown on the neck : this creft the bird can ere£t or deprefs
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