FIGURE 2. A in Validity of Bartram's Painted Vulture (Aves: Cathartidae)

FIGURE 2. A painting by Narca Moore-Craig illustrates Painted Vultures assembling at a Florida fire to consume roasted lizards and snakes, as described by Bartram. Details of coloration incorporate all of Bartram's descriptive materials, but for features left undescribed by Bartram, such as color of the neck ruff, presence of a red eye-ring, and presence of a dark belt encircling the base of the bill, the painting incorporates characteristics described in Albin's Warwovwen and also known to be present in King Vultures, presumably making the painting as close to the actual Painted Vulture as possible. The width of the terminal dark band to the tail reflects the feathers in Bartram's portrait of Mico Chlucco, rather than Albin's portrait of the Warwovwen, on the assumption that the former were indeed tail feathers of his described Painted Vulture.