. Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie : contenant cinquante planches enlumineés d'oiseaux curieux, et qui non etés jamais descrits, et quelques de quadrupedes, de reptiles et d'insectes, avec de courtes descriptions systematiques . THE TAWNY VULTURE. GENUS VULTURj LIN. SYST. 121. PENNANTS GEN. BIRDS. I. SIZE, Length two feet four inches, as I nieafured it at the Mufeum of the Royal , diifky, fliort, and thick, cere, large, thick and , fmall, placed obliquely near the edge of the bill. Space between the bill and the eyes naked; reft of the head covered with feathers
. Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie : contenant cinquante planches enlumineés d'oiseaux curieux, et qui non etés jamais descrits, et quelques de quadrupedes, de reptiles et d'insectes, avec de courtes descriptions systematiques . THE TAWNY VULTURE. GENUS VULTURj LIN. SYST. 121. PENNANTS GEN. BIRDS. I. SIZE, Length two feet four inches, as I nieafured it at the Mufeum of the Royal , diifky, fliort, and thick, cere, large, thick and , fmall, placed obliquely near the edge of the bill. Space between the bill and the eyes naked; reft of the head covered with , bearded with a tuft of long flender feathers. HEAD, NECK, BACK, BREAST, BELLY, and THIGHS, of a palc tawny colour. COVERTS of the WINGS mixed with brown. TAIL, long and rounded, of a dirty white, barred with narrow oblique ftrokes of brown. LEGS, long, llender, and bluilh. claws, long, llightly bent. CHARACTER, thick bill, llender legs. PLACE, the Falkland Illands. Drawn from a fpecimen in the museum of the Royal Society. This col-Icvflion was entirely negledlecl, and was fallingfaft to decay, till of late years, when it w^asreftored, or rather refounded, by the indefati-gable pains of the hon. daines barrington. DSl. C 3 ] PLANCHE IL LAIGLE A DOS NOIR. CENUS FALCO, LIN. SYST. I24. FALCON, PEN. GEN. BIRDS 2. LA GRANDEUR,LE BEC, LA TETE, du grand aigle. noir, peau nue de la mandibule fupcrieurejaune. LE DERRIERE DU COU, LE VENTRE, et LES COU-VERTURES DES AILES, couleur de la rouillede fer; le defîbus du cou, le dos, et les PENNES DES AILES, noirS. la tige blanche, le bout noir,couvertes de plumes jufquaux pieds, dunecouleur de rouille. LES DOIGTS DES PIEDS, jaunCS. LES ONGLES lioirs. LA DEMEURE, inconnùc. Daprès un defîein dans le cabinet du feuTAYLOR WHITE, Efq. Loifcau quon voitfous le pied de lAigle eft lOifeau de feude la riviere de Gambia en Afrique, et fetrouve confervé au cabinet de marmaduke TUNSTALL, Efq. LA QUEUE,LES JAMBES, B 2 C 4 ] PLATE II. THE BLACK-
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