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Figure 4.6 Proportion of vultures with diclofenac residues, visceral gout, or both (black area of each pie chart) at 13 locations where dead or dying vultures were found. The numbers next to each circle represent the number of birds assessed.

Black vulture, Coragyps atratus] 15 mg/kg BW single dose... 

The second demonstrative sign, or the second principal colour, is white. Hermes says, (VII Chap) Know, Son of Science, that the Vulture cries from the mountain top, I am the White from the Black because whiteness succeeds the blackness. Morien calls this whiteness white Smoke. Alphidius teaches us that this matter, or this white Smoke, is the root of Art, and the Quicksilver of the Sages. Philalethes, (Narrat. Method, p. 36), assures us that Quicksilver is the true Mercury of the Philosophers. This Quicksilver, says he, extracted from this very subtle blackness is the tingent66 Mercury of the Philosophers, with its white and red Sulphur naturally mixed in their mine. ... 

Black-footed albatross Diomedea nigripes Griffon vulture Gyps fulvus... 

Black vulture Coragyps atratus House finch Carpodacus mexicanus... 

Hiebl, I., Schneeganss, D., Grim, F., Kosters, J. Braunitzer, G. (1987). The primary structure of the major and minor hemoglobin component of adult European black vulture (Aegypius monachus, Aegypiinae). Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler, 368, 11-8. 

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